[PATCH] s390: rmap optimization.
From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> while working on my mm patch for s390 I played with rmap a bit, adding BUG statements and the like. While doing so I noticed some room for improvement in rmap. Its minor stuff but anyway... The first observation is that the pte chain array doesn't have holes, meaning that from the pte_chain_idx() of the first array every slot of all following pte chain arrays are full. That is there can't be NULL pointers. The "if (!pte_paddr)" check in try_to_unmap() can be removed and if the loop in page_referenced() is started from pte_chain_idx(pc) then the "if (!pte_paddr)" in page_referenced() can be removed as well. The second observation is that the first pte array of a pte chain has at least one entry. Empty pte chain arrays are always freed immediatly after the last entry was removed. Because of that victim_i can be calculated in a simpler way. Instead of setting victim_i to -1 and then check in each loop iteration against -1 victim_i can just be set to the pte_chain_idx of the first pte chain array.
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