On Tue,  2 Aug 2016 20:14:43 +0800
Baole Ni <[email protected]> wrote:

> I find that the developers often just specified the numeric value
> when calling a macro which is defined with a parameter for access permission.
> As we know, these numeric value for access permission have had the 
> corresponding macro,
> and that using macro can improve the robustness and readability of the code,
> thus, I suggest replacing the numeric parameter with the macro.
> 

NACK!

I find 0444 more readable than S_IRUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH.

-- Steve

> Signed-off-by: Chuansheng Liu <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Baole Ni <[email protected]>
> ---
>  mm/mmap.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
> index de2c176..fad009c 100644
> --- a/mm/mmap.c
> +++ b/mm/mmap.c
> @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ int mmap_rnd_compat_bits __read_mostly = 
> CONFIG_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS;
>  #endif
>  
>  static bool ignore_rlimit_data;
> -core_param(ignore_rlimit_data, ignore_rlimit_data, bool, 0644);
> +core_param(ignore_rlimit_data, ignore_rlimit_data, bool, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | 
> S_IRGRP | S_IROTH);
>  
>  static void unmap_region(struct mm_struct *mm,
>               struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_area_struct *prev,

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