Re: [PATCH] mm/page_alloc: simplify lowmem_reserve max calculation

[Zi Yan]

On 14 Aug 2025, at 5:00, Ye Liu wrote:

> From: Ye Liu <liuye@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Use max() macro to simplify the calculation of maximum lowmem_reserve
> value in calculate_totalreserve_pages(), instead of open-coding the
> comparison. The functionality remains identical.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ye Liu <liuye@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  mm/page_alloc.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 64872214bc7d..8a55a4951d19 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -6236,8 +6236,7 @@ static void calculate_totalreserve_pages(void)
>
>  			/* Find valid and maximum lowmem_reserve in the zone */
>  			for (j = i; j < MAX_NR_ZONES; j++) {
> -				if (zone->lowmem_reserve[j] > max)
> -					max = zone->lowmem_reserve[j];
> +				max = max(max, zone->lowmem_reserve[j]);
>  			}

There is a “if (max > managed_pages)” below. Maybe convert that as well?

Feel free to add Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx>.

Best Regards,
Yan, Zi