On Wed, 2014-03-05 at 20:36 +0800, Dongsheng Yang wrote: > As Kees suggested, I use clamp() function to replace the if and > else branch, making it more readable and modular. > > Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> > Signed-off-by: Dongsheng Yang <yangds.f...@cn.fujitsu.com> [] > diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c [] > @@ -3070,17 +3070,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(nice, int, increment) > * We don't have to worry. Conceptually one call occurs first > * and we have a single winner. > */ > - if (increment < -40) > - increment = -40; > - if (increment > 40) > - increment = 40; > - > + increment = clamp(increment, -40, 40);
Maybe: increment = clamp(increment, -(NICE_MAX - NICE_MIN + 1), , NICE_MAX - NICE_MIN + 1) or add yet another define like #define NICE_RANGE or #define NICE_MAX_INCREMENT -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/