linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10 4/4] cgroups: implement the PIDs subsystem

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Date:	Wed, 13 May 2015 13:29:06 -0400
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@...har.com>
Cc:	lizefan@...wei.com, mingo@...hat.com,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, richard@....at,
	Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 4/4] cgroups: implement the PIDs subsystem

Hello,

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 03:04:52AM +1000, Aleksa Sarai wrote:
> Would you be okay with this?
> 
>     if (limit < 0 || limit >= PIDS_MAX)
> 
> I'd prefer if we used PIDS_MAX as the maximum input value as well as
> being the internal representation of the maximum, rather than
> switching to something like INT_MAX.

Yeah, that sounds okay to me but I forgot why we went for INT_MAX in
the first place.  Do you remember why we tried INT_MAX at all?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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