From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: <yanfei.xu@windriver.com>
Cc: <linux-mm@kvack.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/page_alloc.c: variable type of 'progress' should be 'unsigned long'
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 17:48:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200915174855.822d866316948aadb8193e9b@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200915104620.20582-1-yanfei.xu@windriver.com>
On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 18:46:20 +0800 <yanfei.xu@windriver.com> wrote:
> From: Yanfei Xu <yanfei.xu@windriver.com>
>
> try_to_free_pages returns the number of pages reclaimed, and the type of
> returns is 'unsigned long'. So we should use a matched type for storing
> it.
>
__perform_reclaim() returns an int, so this change is fairly pointless.
However __perform_reclaim()'s single caller expects it to return
unsigned long, so including that change in this patch would make more
sense.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-16 0:49 UTC|newest]
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2020-09-15 10:46 yanfei.xu
2020-09-16 0:48 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2020-09-16 1:56 ` Xu, Yanfei
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