Re: [PATCH] mm/page_alloc.c: variable type of 'progress' should be 'unsigned long'

[Xu, Yanfei]

On 9/16/20 8:48 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 18:46:20 +0800 <yanfei.xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > From: Yanfei Xu <yanfei.xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > 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.
Yeah, thanks for reminding. I will add that and send a v2. :)

Regards,
Yanfei