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mm: make folio page count functions return unsigned
authorAristeu Rozanski <aris@ruivo.org>
Tue, 26 Aug 2025 15:37:21 +0000 (11:37 -0400)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Sun, 21 Sep 2025 21:22:31 +0000 (14:22 -0700)
commitfa17bcd5f65ed702df001579cca8c885fa6bf3e7
tree2d42b0d56d78457e1bb983a1849a77abf9976291
parent9b375adb398493f096d776721caac8fe26bfb2b7
mm: make folio page count functions return unsigned

As raised by Andrew [1], a folio/compound page never spans a negative
number of pages.  Consequently, let's use "unsigned long" instead of
"long" consistently for folio_nr_pages(), folio_large_nr_pages() and
compound_nr().

Using "unsigned long" as return value is fine, because even
"(long)-folio_nr_pages()" will keep on working as expected.  Using
"unsigned int" instead would actually break these use cases.

This patch takes the first step changing these to return unsigned long
(and making drm_gem_get_pages() use the new types instead of replacing
min()).

In the future, we might want to make more callers of these functions to
consistently use "unsigned long".

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250503182858.5a02729fcffd6d4723afcfc2@linux-foundation.org/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250826153721.GA23292@cathedrallabs.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250503182858.5a02729fcffd6d4723afcfc2@linux-foundation.org/
Signed-off-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@ruivo.org>
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c
include/linux/mm.h