Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] mm/highmem: make nr_free_highpages() return "unsigned long"

From: Oscar Salvador
Date: Sun Jun 09 2024 - 23:41:07 EST


On Fri, Jun 07, 2024 at 10:37:11AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> It looks rather weird that totalhigh_pages() returns an
> "unsigned long" but nr_free_highpages() returns an "unsigned int".
>
> Let's return an "unsigned long" from nr_free_highpages() to be
> consistent.
>
> While at it, use a plain "0" instead of a "0UL" in the !CONFIG_HIGHMEM
> totalhigh_pages() implementation, to make these look alike as well.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
...
> -static inline unsigned int nr_free_highpages(void) { return 0; }
> -static inline unsigned long totalhigh_pages(void) { return 0UL; }
> +static inline unsigned long nr_free_highpages(void) { return 0; }
> +static inline unsigned long totalhigh_pages(void) { return 0; }

Although I doubt it has any consequences, I would just leave them both with UL,
so the return type is consistent with what we are returning.

Other than that

Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>

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