On 04.02.20 10:46, Oscar Salvador wrote: > On Sun, Oct 06, 2019 at 10:56:46AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote: >> Let's drop the basically unused section stuff and simplify. >> >> Also, let's use a shorter variant to calculate the number of pages to >> the next section boundary. >> >> Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> >> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalva...@suse.de> >> Cc: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com> >> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatas...@soleen.com> >> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com> >> Cc: Wei Yang <richardw.y...@linux.intel.com> >> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <da...@redhat.com> > > I have to confess that it took me while to wrap around my head > with the new min() change, but looks ok:
It's a pattern commonly used in compilers and emulators to calculate the number of bytes to the next block/alignment. (we're missing a macro (like we have ALIGN_UP/IS_ALIGNED) for that - but it's hard to come up with a good name (e.g., SIZE_TO_NEXT_ALIGN) . -- Thanks, David / dhildenb
