Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm/pagewalk: use min() macro instead of manual ternary

[David Laight]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:38:49 +0530
Sahil Chandna <chandna.sahil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  mm: pagewalk: use min() macro instead of manual ternary expression
> 
> Use the kernel-provided min() macro to compute the minimum value instead
> of an explicit ternary expression. This improves readability and matches
> common kernel style.
> 
> This was flagged by Coccinelle
> (misc/minmax.cocci) as an opportunity to use min().
> 
> Found by: make coccicheck MODE=report M=mm/
> No functional change intended.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sahil Chandna <chandna.sahil@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  mm/pagewalk.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/pagewalk.c b/mm/pagewalk.c
> index 9f91cf85a5be..82db421b5b34 100644
> --- a/mm/pagewalk.c
> +++ b/mm/pagewalk.c
> @@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ static unsigned long hugetlb_entry_end(struct hstate *h, unsigned long addr,
>  				       unsigned long end)
>  {
>  	unsigned long boundary = (addr & huge_page_mask(h)) + huge_page_size(h);
> -	return boundary < end ? boundary : end;
> +	return min(boundary, end);

You can remove the temporary:
	return min((addr & huge_page_mask(h)) + huge_page_size(h), end);

  David

>  }
>  
>  static int walk_hugetlb_range(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,