linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/mmap.c: use while instead of if+goto

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Date:	Mon, 30 Mar 2015 14:58:21 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
Cc:	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>,
	Roman Gushchin <klamm@...dex-team.ru>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/mmap.c: use while instead of if+goto

On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 23:54:13 +0300 "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 09:40:35PM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> > The creators of the C language gave us the while keyword. Let's use
> > that instead of synthesizing it from if+goto.
> > 
> > Made possible by 6597d783397a ("mm/mmap.c: replace find_vma_prepare()
> > with clearer find_vma_links()").
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
> 
> 
> Looks good, except both your plus-lines are over 80-characters long for no
> reason.

--- a/mm/mmap.c~mm-mmapc-use-while-instead-of-ifgoto-fix
+++ a/mm/mmap.c
@@ -1551,7 +1551,8 @@ unsigned long mmap_region(struct file *f
 
 	/* Clear old maps */
 	error = -ENOMEM;
-	while (find_vma_links(mm, addr, addr + len, &prev, &rb_link, &rb_parent)) {
+	while (find_vma_links(mm, addr, addr + len, &prev, &rb_link,
+			      &rb_parent)) {
 		if (do_munmap(mm, addr, len))
 			return -ENOMEM;
 	}
@@ -1569,7 +1570,8 @@ unsigned long mmap_region(struct file *f
 	/*
 	 * Can we just expand an old mapping?
 	 */
-	vma = vma_merge(mm, prev, addr, addr + len, vm_flags, NULL, file, pgoff, NULL);
+	vma = vma_merge(mm, prev, addr, addr + len, vm_flags, NULL, file, pgoff,
+	                NULL);
 	if (vma)
 		goto out;
 
@@ -2737,7 +2739,8 @@ static unsigned long do_brk(unsigned lon
 	/*
 	 * Clear old maps.  this also does some error checking for us
 	 */
-	while (find_vma_links(mm, addr, addr + len, &prev, &rb_link, &rb_parent)) {
+	while (find_vma_links(mm, addr, addr + len, &prev, &rb_link,
+			      &rb_parent)) {
 		if (do_munmap(mm, addr, len))
 			return -ENOMEM;
 	}

I'm not sure it improves things a lot, but mmap.c has been pretty
careful about the 80-col thing...

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