linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] selftests/mm: use long for dwRegionSize

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Message-Id: <20250427171307.876badf3d5606cf502b7f46f@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2025 17:13:07 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Siddarth G <siddarthsgml@...il.com>
Cc: shuah@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests/mm: use long for dwRegionSize

On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 15:56:39 +0530 Siddarth G <siddarthsgml@...il.com> wrote:

> Change the type of 'dwRegionSize' in wp_init() and wp_free()
> from int to long to match callers that pass long or
> unsigned long long values.
> 
> wp_addr_range function is left unchanged because it passes
> 'dwRegionSize' parameter directly to pagemap_ioctl, which expects
> an int.

Thanks.  Does this fix any known compile-time or runtime issues?