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authorWei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>2018-10-26 15:07:55 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-10-26 16:26:34 -0700
commitd4faa40259b8524a09c1b0fcd38a446db0c0b770 (patch)
treed9fe02eaf997d41db0e0f5895e37b5e8c83e4458 /mm/gup.c
parent966cf44f637e6aeea7e3d01ba004bf8b5beac78f (diff)
downloadlinux-d4faa40259b8524a09c1b0fcd38a446db0c0b770.tar.gz
mm: remove unnecessary local variable addr in __get_user_pages_fast()
The local variable `addr' in __get_user_pages_fast() is just a shadow of
`start'.  Since `start' never changes after assignment to `addr', it is
fine to replace `start' with it.

Also the meaning of [start, end] is more obvious than [addr, end] when
passed to gup_pgd_range().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180925021448.20265-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/gup.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/gup.c5
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index 1abc8b4afff6..08eb350e0f35 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -1780,12 +1780,11 @@ bool gup_fast_permitted(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write)
 int __get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
 			  struct page **pages)
 {
-	unsigned long addr, len, end;
+	unsigned long len, end;
 	unsigned long flags;
 	int nr = 0;
 
 	start &= PAGE_MASK;
-	addr = start;
 	len = (unsigned long) nr_pages << PAGE_SHIFT;
 	end = start + len;
 
@@ -1807,7 +1806,7 @@ int __get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
 
 	if (gup_fast_permitted(start, nr_pages, write)) {
 		local_irq_save(flags);
-		gup_pgd_range(addr, end, write, pages, &nr);
+		gup_pgd_range(start, end, write, pages, &nr);
 		local_irq_restore(flags);
 	}