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Date:   Fri, 14 Jun 2019 12:00:36 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Arun KS <arunks@...eaurora.org>,
        Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...cle.com>,
        Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/6] mm: Section numbers use the type "unsigned long"

On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 12:01:09 +0200 David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com> wrote:

> We are using a mixture of "int" and "unsigned long". Let's make this
> consistent by using "unsigned long" everywhere. We'll do the same with
> memory block ids next.
> 
> ...
>
> -	int i, ret, section_count = 0;
> +	unsigned long i;
>
> ...
>
> -	unsigned int i;
> +	unsigned long i;

Maybe I did too much fortran back in the day, but I think the
expectation is that a variable called "i" has type "int".

This?



s/unsigned long i/unsigned long section_nr/

--- a/drivers/base/memory.c~mm-section-numbers-use-the-type-unsigned-long-fix
+++ a/drivers/base/memory.c
@@ -131,17 +131,17 @@ static ssize_t phys_index_show(struct de
 static ssize_t removable_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
 			      char *buf)
 {
-	unsigned long i, pfn;
+	unsigned long section_nr, pfn;
 	int ret = 1;
 	struct memory_block *mem = to_memory_block(dev);
 
 	if (mem->state != MEM_ONLINE)
 		goto out;
 
-	for (i = 0; i < sections_per_block; i++) {
-		if (!present_section_nr(mem->start_section_nr + i))
+	for (section_nr = 0; section_nr < sections_per_block; section_nr++) {
+		if (!present_section_nr(mem->start_section_nr + section_nr))
 			continue;
-		pfn = section_nr_to_pfn(mem->start_section_nr + i);
+		pfn = section_nr_to_pfn(mem->start_section_nr + section_nr);
 		ret &= is_mem_section_removable(pfn, PAGES_PER_SECTION);
 	}
 
@@ -695,12 +695,12 @@ static int add_memory_block(unsigned lon
 {
 	int ret, section_count = 0;
 	struct memory_block *mem;
-	unsigned long i;
+	unsigned long section_nr;
 
-	for (i = base_section_nr;
-	     i < base_section_nr + sections_per_block;
-	     i++)
-		if (present_section_nr(i))
+	for (section_nr = base_section_nr;
+	     section_nr < base_section_nr + sections_per_block;
+	     section_nr++)
+		if (present_section_nr(section_nr))
 			section_count++;
 
 	if (section_count == 0)
@@ -823,7 +823,7 @@ static const struct attribute_group *mem
  */
 int __init memory_dev_init(void)
 {
-	unsigned long i;
+	unsigned long section_nr;
 	int ret;
 	int err;
 	unsigned long block_sz;
@@ -840,9 +840,9 @@ int __init memory_dev_init(void)
 	 * during boot and have been initialized
 	 */
 	mutex_lock(&mem_sysfs_mutex);
-	for (i = 0; i <= __highest_present_section_nr;
-		i += sections_per_block) {
-		err = add_memory_block(i);
+	for (section_nr = 0; section_nr <= __highest_present_section_nr;
+		section_nr += sections_per_block) {
+		err = add_memory_block(section_nr);
 		if (!ret)
 			ret = err;
 	}
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