linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] posix-timers: Prevents overrun counter overflow

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Message-ID: <20150124181724.GA5198@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Sat, 24 Jan 2015 19:17:24 +0100
From:	Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
To:	Daniel Church <dchurch@...plus.com>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	libc-alpha@...rceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] posix-timers: Prevents overrun counter overflow

On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 12:48:56PM -0500, Daniel Church wrote:
> +/*
> + * Updates a timer's overrun count while capping it to delaytimer_max
> + */
> +static void posix_timer_update_overrun_count(struct k_itimer *timer,
> +					     unsigned int overruns)
> +{
> +	const bool newOverrunsAboveMax = overruns >= delaytimer_max;
> +	const bool totalOverrunsAboveMax =
> +		timer->it_overrun >= 0 &&
> +		timer->it_overrun >= delaytimer_max - overruns;

Lower camel case is not a part of the kernel coding style.

Also, the 'const' keyword is useless in this context.

> +
> +	if (newOverrunsAboveMax || totalOverrunsAboveMax) {
> +		timer->it_overrun = delaytimer_max;
> +	} else {
> +		timer->it_overrun += overruns;
> +	}
> +}
> +
>  /* Get clock_realtime */
>  static int posix_clock_realtime_get(clockid_t which_clock, struct timespec *tp)
>  {
> @@ -1122,3 +1150,4 @@ long clock_nanosleep_restart(struct restart_block *restart_block)
>  
>  	return kc->nsleep_restart(restart_block);
>  }
> +

This stray newline and the camel case are the kinds of things that
checkpatch.pl will catch.

Thanks,
Richard
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