Re: [PATCH] mm/sparsemem: Cleanup 'section number' data types

From: David Hildenbrand
Date: Fri Jun 21 2019 - 11:04:57 EST


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 ;)

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb