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Message-ID: <4df4ef0c0801180230r516085f0s3e6b919c395f33d2@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:30:19 +0300
From:	"Anton Salikhmetov" <salikhmetov@...il.com>
To:	"Miklos Szeredi" <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, jakob@...hought.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, valdis.kletnieks@...edu,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH -v6 1/2] Massive code cleanup of sys_msync()

2008/1/18, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>:
> >       unsigned long end;
> > -     struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
> > +     int error, unmapped_error;
> >       struct vm_area_struct *vma;
> > -     int unmapped_error = 0;
> > -     int error = -EINVAL;
> > +     struct mm_struct *mm;
> >
> > +     error = -EINVAL;
>
> I think you may have misunderstood my last comment.  These are OK:
>
>         struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
>         int unmapped_error = 0;
>         int error = -EINVAL;
>
> This is not so good:
>
>         int error, unmapped_error;
>
> This is the worst:
>
>         int error = -EINVAL, unmapped_error = 0;
>
> So I think the original code is fine as it is.
>
> Othewise patch looks OK now.

I moved the initialization of the variables to the code where they are needed.

I don't agree that "int a; int b;" is better than "int a, b".

>
> Miklos
>
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