linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 07/16] mm/migration: use helper macro min_t in do_pages

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Date:   Mon, 7 Mar 2022 19:51:04 +0800
From:   Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:     <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>, <shy828301@...il.com>,
        <willy@...radead.org>, <ying.huang@...el.com>, <ziy@...dia.com>,
        <minchan@...nel.org>, <apopple@...dia.com>,
        <ave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, <o451686892@...il.com>,
        <almasrymina@...gle.com>, <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        <rcampbell@...dia.com>, <peterx@...hat.com>,
        <naoya.horiguchi@....com>, <mhocko@...e.com>, <riel@...hat.com>,
        <linux-mm@...ck.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/16] mm/migration: use helper macro min_t in
 do_pages_stat

On 2022/3/7 9:14, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Mar 2022 17:34:00 +0800 Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com> wrote:
> 
>> We could use helper macro min_t to help set the chunk_nr to simplify
>> the code.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> --- a/mm/migrate.c
>> +++ b/mm/migrate.c
>> @@ -1858,9 +1858,7 @@ static int do_pages_stat(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long nr_pages,
>>  	while (nr_pages) {
>>  		unsigned long chunk_nr;
>>  
>> -		chunk_nr = nr_pages;
>> -		if (chunk_nr > DO_PAGES_STAT_CHUNK_NR)
>> -			chunk_nr = DO_PAGES_STAT_CHUNK_NR;
>> +		chunk_nr = min_t(unsigned long, nr_pages, DO_PAGES_STAT_CHUNK_NR);
>>  
>>  		if (in_compat_syscall()) {
>>  			if (get_compat_pages_array(chunk_pages, pages,
> 
> Getting the types correct is better than using min_t().
> 

Looks good. Many thanks for your suggestion. Will do it in v2.

Thanks.

> --- a/mm/migrate.c~mm-migration-use-helper-macro-min_t-in-do_pages_stat-fix
> +++ a/mm/migrate.c
> @@ -1844,14 +1844,12 @@ static int do_pages_stat(struct mm_struc
>  			 const void __user * __user *pages,
>  			 int __user *status)
>  {
> -#define DO_PAGES_STAT_CHUNK_NR 16
> +#define DO_PAGES_STAT_CHUNK_NR 16UL
>  	const void __user *chunk_pages[DO_PAGES_STAT_CHUNK_NR];
>  	int chunk_status[DO_PAGES_STAT_CHUNK_NR];
>  
>  	while (nr_pages) {
> -		unsigned long chunk_nr;
> -
> -		chunk_nr = min_t(unsigned long, nr_pages, DO_PAGES_STAT_CHUNK_NR);
> +		unsigned long chunk_nr = min(nr_pages, DO_PAGES_STAT_CHUNK_NR);
>  
>  		if (in_compat_syscall()) {
>  			if (get_compat_pages_array(chunk_pages, pages,
> _
> 
> .
>