On Wed, 05 Mar 2014 07:17:36 -0800
Joe Perches <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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 <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Dongsheng Yang <[email protected]>
> []
> > 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)

Ug, that's much harder to read.

> 
> or add yet another define like #define NICE_RANGE
> or #define NICE_MAX_INCREMENT

Sure, if there's a NICE_MAX_INC == 40, then we could do:

        increment = clamp(increment, -NICE_MAX_INC, NICE_MAX_INC);

-- Steve
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