From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/sparsemem: Cleanup 'section number' data types
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 17:04:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ed4ccc6e-082b-df7a-6633-0b5f95e7bf2d@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190621145805.GN32656@bombadil.infradead.org>
On 21.06.19 16:58, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 05:06:46PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
>> David points out that there is a mixture of 'int' and 'unsigned long'
>> usage for section number data types. Update the memory hotplug path to
>> use 'unsigned long' consistently for section numbers.
>
> ... because we're seriously considering the possibility that we'll need
> more than 4 billion sections?
>
To make it consistent ;)
--
Thanks,
David / dhildenb
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-21 15:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-21 0:06 Dan Williams
2019-06-21 7:23 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-06-21 14:58 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-06-21 15:04 ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
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