From 4c199a93a2d36b277a9fd209a0f2793f8460a215 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michel Lespinasse Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 16:30:32 -0700 Subject: 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 Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Acked-by: David Woodhouse Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Daniel Santos Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: John Stultz Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/proc') diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c index dcd56f84db7..fddc5072963 100644 --- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c +++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c @@ -168,10 +168,8 @@ static void init_header(struct ctl_table_header *head, head->node = node; if (node) { struct ctl_table *entry; - for (entry = table; entry->procname; entry++, node++) { - rb_init_node(&node->node); + for (entry = table; entry->procname; entry++, node++) node->header = head; - } } } -- cgit v1.2.3