Re: [PATCH] mm/pagewalk: use min() to simplify the code

From: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)

Date: Wed Jan 21 2026 - 07:07:21 EST


On 1/20/26 10:49, zenghongling wrote:
Use the min() macro to simplify the function and improve
its readability.

Signed-off-by: zenghongling <zenghongling@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
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);

There was a length discussion recently about changing this code:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/35ab82f052d248c0047c10bf01853e37e4f9b4e4.1764312627.git.chandna.sahil@xxxxxxxxx/

Changing the min only LGTM.

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Cheers

David