Re: [PATCH] mm/hugetlb_vmemmap: Use max() macro to simplify the code

[David Laight <david.laight.linux@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2026 06:17:07 +0000
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 21, 2026 at 09:51:14AM +0800, zenghongling wrote:
> > Use the max() macro to simplify the function and improve
> > its readability.  
> 
> How does this improve readability?  I understand what this does in
> the ternary form.  I have to think far harder about it in the max()
> form.

I must do a patch for checkpatch.pl to stop it suggesting min/max
for trivial cases.
Oh - and stop it ever suggesting the _t variants.
IMHO it is better to have an explicit cast on one of the parameters.

	David

> 
> >  	if (!is_power_of_2(sizeof(struct page)))
> >  		return 0;
> > -	return size > 0 ? size : 0;
> > +	return max(size, 0);
> >  }  
>