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Date:	Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:55:00 -0500
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Anton Salikhmetov <salikhmetov@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, jakob@...hought.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu, ksm@...dk,
	staubach@...hat.com, jesper.juhl@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2][RFC][BUG] msync: massive code cleanup of
 sys_msync()

On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:38:42 +0300
Anton Salikhmetov <salikhmetov@...il.com> wrote:

> @@ -33,71 +34,60 @@ asmlinkage long sys_msync(unsigned long start, size_t len, int flags)
>  	unsigned long end;
>  	struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
>  	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
> -	int unmapped_error = 0;
> -	int error = -EINVAL;
> +	int error = 0, unmapped_error = 0;
> +
> +	if ((flags & ~(MS_ASYNC | MS_INVALIDATE | MS_SYNC)) ||
> +			(start & ~PAGE_MASK) ||
> +			((flags & MS_ASYNC) && (flags & MS_SYNC)))
> +		return -EINVAL;
>  
> -	if (flags & ~(MS_ASYNC | MS_INVALIDATE | MS_SYNC))
> -		goto out;
> -	if (start & ~PAGE_MASK)
> -		goto out;
> -	if ((flags & MS_ASYNC) && (flags & MS_SYNC))
> -		goto out;
> -	error = -ENOMEM;

Personally I prefer having these error checks separated out,
but that's just my opinion :)

I like the rest of your cleanup patch.

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