mm: remove worrying dead code from find_get_pages()

The radix_tree_deref_retry() case in find_get_pages() has a strange little
excrescence, not seen in the other gang lookups: it looks like the start
of an abandoned attempt to guarantee forward progress in a case that
cannot arise.

ret should always be 0 here: if it isn't, then going back to restart will
leak references to pages already gotten.  There used to be a comment
saying nr_found is necessarily 1 here: that's not quite true, but the
radix_tree_deref_retry() case is peculiar to the entry at index 0, when we
race with it being moved out of the radix_tree root or back.

Remove the worrisome two lines, add a brief comment here and in
find_get_pages_contig() and find_get_pages_tag(), and a WARN_ON in
find_get_pages() should it ever be seen elsewhere than at 0.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: Nick Piggin <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <[email protected]>
Cc: Salman Qazi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

Author: Hugh Dickins

mm/filemap.c

@@ -863,9 +863,13 @@ unsigned find_get_pages(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t start,
 		page = radix_tree_deref_slot((void **)pages[i]);
 		if (unlikely(!page))
 			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * This can only trigger when the entry at index 0 moves out
+		 * of or back to the root: none yet gotten, safe to restart.
+		 */
 		if (radix_tree_deref_retry(page)) {
-			if (ret)
-				start = pages[ret-1]->index;
+			WARN_ON(start | i);
 			goto restart;
 		}
 
@@ -915,6 +919,11 @@ unsigned find_get_pages_contig(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t index,
 		page = radix_tree_deref_slot((void **)pages[i]);
 		if (unlikely(!page))
 			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * This can only trigger when the entry at index 0 moves out
+		 * of or back to the root: none yet gotten, safe to restart.
+		 */
 		if (radix_tree_deref_retry(page))
 			goto restart;
 
@@ -975,6 +984,11 @@ unsigned find_get_pages_tag(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t *index,
 		page = radix_tree_deref_slot((void **)pages[i]);
 		if (unlikely(!page))
 			continue;
+
+		/*
+		 * This can only trigger when the entry at index 0 moves out
+		 * of or back to the root: none yet gotten, safe to restart.
+		 */
 		if (radix_tree_deref_retry(page))
 			goto restart;