mm/mprotect: use long for page accountings and retval
Switch to use type "long" for page accountings and retval across the whole procedure of change_protection(). The change should have shrinked the possible maximum page number to be half comparing to previous (ULONG_MAX / 2), but it shouldn't overflow on any system either because the maximum possible pages touched by change protection should be ULONG_MAX / PAGE_SIZE. Two reasons to switch from "unsigned long" to "long": 1. It suites better on count_vm_numa_events(), whose 2nd parameter takes a long type. 2. It paves way for returning negative (error) values in the future. Currently the only caller that consumes this retval is change_prot_numa(), where the unsigned long was converted to an int. Since at it, touching up the numa code to also take a long, so it'll avoid any possible overflow too during the int-size convertion. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230104225207.1066932-3-peterx@redhat.comSigned-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Acked-by: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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