Re: [PATCH 28/30] mm/vma: use guard clauses in can_vma_merge_[before, after]()
Gregory Price <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Jun 29, 2026 at 01:23:39PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote: > Rather than combining a bunch of conditionals in a single expression, > simplify by inverting the mergeability requirements into guard clauses. > > that is - instead of checking what must be true for the conditions to be > met, instead check the inverse of the requirements and return false if any > are true, defaulting to true. > > No functional change intended. > > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Gregory Price <[email protected]>