mm/mempolicy.c: remove unnecessary is_valid_nodemask()

When nodes is true, nsc->mask2 has already been filtered by nsc->mask1,
which has already factored in node_states[N_MEMORY].

Signed-off-by: Zhihui Zhang <zzhsuny@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index e58725aff7e9..f22c55947181 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -162,12 +162,6 @@ static const struct mempolicy_operations {
                         enum mpol_rebind_step step);
 } mpol_ops[MPOL_MAX];
 
-/* Check that the nodemask contains at least one populated zone */
-static int is_valid_nodemask(const nodemask_t *nodemask)
-{
-        return nodes_intersects(*nodemask, node_states[N_MEMORY]);
-}
-
 static inline int mpol_store_user_nodemask(const struct mempolicy *pol)
 {
         return pol->flags & MPOL_MODE_FLAGS;
@@ -202,7 +196,7 @@ static int mpol_new_preferred(struct mempolicy *pol, const nodemask_t *nodes)
 
 static int mpol_new_bind(struct mempolicy *pol, const nodemask_t *nodes)
 {
-        if (!is_valid_nodemask(nodes))
+        if (nodes_empty(*nodes))
                 return -EINVAL;
         pol->v.nodes = *nodes;
         return 0;
@@ -234,7 +228,7 @@ static int mpol_set_nodemask(struct mempolicy *pol,
                 nodes = NULL;   /* explicit local allocation */
         else {
                 if (pol->flags & MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES)
-                        mpol_relative_nodemask(&nsc->mask2, nodes,&nsc->mask1);
+                        mpol_relative_nodemask(&nsc->mask2, nodes, &nsc->mask1);
                 else
                         nodes_and(nsc->mask2, *nodes, nsc->mask1);