pids: alloc_pidmap: remove the unnecessary boundary checks
alloc_pidmap() calculates max_scan so that if the initial offset != 0 we
inspect the first map->page twice. This is correct, we want to find the
unused bits < offset in this bitmap block. Add the comment.
But it doesn't make any sense to stop the find_next_offset() loop when we
are looking into this map->page for the second time. We have already
already checked the bits >= offset during the first attempt, it is fine to
do this again, no matter if we succeed this time or not.
Remove this hard-to-understand code. It optimizes the very unlikely case
when we are going to fail, but slows down the more likely case.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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