[PATCH 1/5] fix incorrect variable type of do_try_to_free_pages()

From: kosaki . motohiro
Date: Wed Jun 04 2008 - 21:23:32 EST


"Smarter retry of costly-order allocations" patch series change behaver of do_try_to_free_pages().
but unfortunately ret variable tyep unchanged.

thus, overflow problem is possible.


Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
mm/vmscan.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: b/mm/vmscan.c
===================================================================
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1317,7 +1317,7 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_page
struct scan_control *sc)
{
int priority;
- int ret = 0;
+ unsigned long ret = 0;
unsigned long total_scanned = 0;
unsigned long nr_reclaimed = 0;
struct reclaim_state *reclaim_state = current->reclaim_state;

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