On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 05:11:10AM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
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> > It's confusing that set_max_huge_pages() contained two different
> >  variables named "ret", and although the code works correctly this should
> >  be fixed.
> >
> >  The inner of the two variables can simply be removed.
>                             ^^^^
> 
> two?
> I think removal inner variable is 1, no?

Two people for whom English is not the native language are trying to 
understand each other...  ;)

There were two variables.

And my patch removes the inner one inside the loop, not the outer one 
that is valid within the whole function.

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> but, your change is perfectly right, IMHO.
> 
>            Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
> 
> 
> >         while (count > persistent_huge_pages) {
> >  -               int ret;
> >                 /*
> >                  * If this allocation races such that we no longer need the
> >                  * page, free_huge_page will handle it by freeing the page
> >                  * and reducing the surplus.
> >                  */

cu
Adrian

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