Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] mm: Return bool from pagebit test functions

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Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 11:59:17AM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> > Make functions that test page bits return a bool, not an int.  This means
> > that the value is definitely 0 or 1 if they're used in arithmetic, rather
> > than rely on test_bit() and friends to return this (though they probably
> > should).
> 
> iirc i looked at doing this as part of the folio work, and it ended up
> increasing the size of the kernel.  Did you run bloat-o-meter on the
> result of doing this?

Hmmm.  With my usual monolithic x86_64 kernel, it makes vmlinux text section
100 bytes larger (19392347 rather than 19392247).  I can look into why.

David




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