Re: [patch] aio: make aio_ring_info->nr_pages an unsigned int

[Zach Brown]

> --- ./include/linux/aio.h.orig	2006-12-24 22:31:55.000000000 -0800
> +++ ./include/linux/aio.h	2006-12-24 22:41:28.000000000 -0800
> @@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ struct aio_ring_info {
>
>  	struct page		**ring_pages;
>  	spinlock_t		ring_lock;
> -	long			nr_pages;
> +	unsigned		nr_pages;
>
>  	unsigned		nr, tail;

Hmm.

This seems so trivial as to not be worth it.  It'd be more compelling  
if it was more thorough -- doing things like updating the 'long i'  
iterators that a feww have over ->nr_pages.  That kind of thing.   
Giving some confidence that the references of ->nr_pages were audited.

- z
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