From 3c82d0ce2c4f642b2f24ef98707a030543b06b90 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Whitcroft Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:27:11 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] buddy: clarify comments describing buddy merge In __free_one_page(), the comment "Move the buddy up one level" appears attached to the break and by implication when the break is taken we are moving it up one level: if (!page_is_buddy(page, buddy, order)) break; /* Move the buddy up one level. */ In reality the inverse is true, we break out when we can no longer merge this page with its buddy. Looking back into pre-history (into the full git history) it appears that these two lines accidentally got joined as part of another change. Move the comment down where it belongs below the if and clarify its language. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/page_alloc.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 35b1347d81b..24aa3d1b9d9 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -432,8 +432,9 @@ static inline void __free_one_page(struct page *page, buddy = __page_find_buddy(page, page_idx, order); if (!page_is_buddy(page, buddy, order)) - break; /* Move the buddy up one level. */ + break; + /* Our buddy is free, merge with it and move up one order. */ list_del(&buddy->lru); zone->free_area[order].nr_free--; rmv_page_order(buddy); -- 2.41.1