Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] vfio/type1: Use consistent types for page counts

From: Peter Xu
Date: Tue Feb 18 2025 - 17:46:49 EST


On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 03:22:04PM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:
> Page count should more consistently be an unsigned long when passed as
> an argument while functions returning a number of pages should use a
> signed long to allow for -errno.
>
> vaddr_get_pfns() can therefore be upgraded to return long, though in
> practice it's currently limited by the batch capacity. In fact, the
> batch indexes are noted to never hold negative values, so while it
> doesn't make sense to bloat the structure with unsigned longs in this
> case, it does make sense to specify these as unsigned.
>
> No change in behavior expected.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Peter Xu