On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 09:44:16AM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote: > I'm wondering if we should just return the number of changed pages via a > separate pointer and later using an int for returning errors -- when > touching this interface already. > > Only who's actually interested in the number of pages would pass a pointer > to an unsigned long (NUMA). > > And code that expects that there never ever are failures (mprotect, NUMA) > could simply check for WARN_ON_ONCE(ret). > > I assume you evaluated that option as well, what was your conclusion? Since a single long can cover both things as retval, it's better to keep it simple? Thanks, -- Peter Xu
