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authorMichel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>2012-10-08 16:30:32 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-10-09 16:22:32 +0900
commit4c199a93a2d36b277a9fd209a0f2793f8460a215 (patch)
treeb7d6af9220ef445eb4a9f5f0966a3bc5306fe513 /lib
parent1457d2877864d918c546735bd89c29d5e2a542f1 (diff)
downloadlinux-4c199a93a2d36b277a9fd209a0f2793f8460a215.tar.gz
rbtree: empty nodes have no color
Empty nodes have no color.  We can make use of this property to simplify
the code emitted by the RB_EMPTY_NODE and RB_CLEAR_NODE macros.  Also,
we can get rid of the rb_init_node function which had been introduced by
commit 88d19cf37952 ("timers: Add rb_init_node() to allow for stack
allocated rb nodes") to avoid some issue with the empty node's color not
being initialized.

I'm not sure what the RB_EMPTY_NODE checks in rb_prev() / rb_next() are
doing there, though.  axboe introduced them in commit 10fd48f2376d
("rbtree: fixed reversed RB_EMPTY_NODE and rb_next/prev").  The way I
see it, the 'empty node' abstraction is only used by rbtree users to
flag nodes that they haven't inserted in any rbtree, so asking the
predecessor or successor of such nodes doesn't make any sense.

One final rb_init_node() caller was recently added in sysctl code to
implement faster sysctl name lookups.  This code doesn't make use of
RB_EMPTY_NODE at all, and from what I could see it only called
rb_init_node() under the mistaken assumption that such initialization was
required before node insertion.

[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: fix net/ceph/osd_client.c build]
Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@pobox.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/rbtree.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/rbtree.c b/lib/rbtree.c
index d4175565dc2c..fe43c8c5f527 100644
--- a/lib/rbtree.c
+++ b/lib/rbtree.c
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ struct rb_node *rb_next(const struct rb_node *node)
 {
 	struct rb_node *parent;
 
-	if (rb_parent(node) == node)
+	if (RB_EMPTY_NODE(node))
 		return NULL;
 
 	/* If we have a right-hand child, go down and then left as far
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ struct rb_node *rb_prev(const struct rb_node *node)
 {
 	struct rb_node *parent;
 
-	if (rb_parent(node) == node)
+	if (RB_EMPTY_NODE(node))
 		return NULL;
 
 	/* If we have a left-hand child, go down and then right as far