Re: [PATCH 2/4 v6] kernel/fork.c: avoid division by zero

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Wed Mar 18 2015 - 13:09:04 EST


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)

;)

Oleg.

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