From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752754AbbCYMZ0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Mar 2015 08:25:26 -0400 Received: from mail-wg0-f49.google.com ([74.125.82.49]:34207 "EHLO mail-wg0-f49.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751261AbbCYMZW (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Mar 2015 08:25:22 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 13:25:15 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt , Andrew Morton , Aaron Tomlin , Andy Lutomirski , Davidlohr Bueso , David Rientjes , "David S. Miller" , Fabian Frederick , Guenter Roeck , "H. Peter Anvin" , Jens Axboe , Joe Perches , Johannes Weiner , Jonathan Corbet , Kees Cook , Michael Marineau , "Paul E. McKenney" , Peter Zijlstra , Prarit Bhargava , Rik van Riel , Rusty Russell , Steven Rostedt , Thomas Gleixner , Vladimir Davydov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4 v6] kernel/fork.c: avoid division by zero Message-ID: <20150325122515.GA3369@gmail.com> References: <1426436018-5159-1-git-send-email-xypron.glpk@gmx.de> <1426436018-5159-3-git-send-email-xypron.glpk@gmx.de> <20150316074146.GB15458@gmail.com> <55087E40.1020800@gmx.de> <20150318164903.GA18069@gmail.com> <20150318170655.GA30545@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150318170655.GA30545@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Oleg Nesterov wrote: > On 03/18, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > But ... no strong feelings from me, I'm not NAK-ing it or anything, > > maybe I'd have used this well-known pattern: > > > > threads = min(max(MIN_THREADS, threads), MAX_THREADS); > > > > instead of: > > > > > >> + if (threads > MAX_THREADS) > > > >> + threads = MAX_THREADS; > > > >> + > > > >> + if (threads < MIN_THREADS) > > > >> + threads = MIN_THREADS; > > clamp(threads, MIN_THREADS, MAX_THREADS) > > ;) Indeed ;-) Thanks, Ingo