Their stored values come from zone_page_state() which returns an unsigned long. To improve code correctness we should avoid mixing signed and unsigned integers. Signed-off-by: Alexandru Moise <00moses.alexander00@xxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 48aaf7b..f55e3a2 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -2242,7 +2242,7 @@ static bool __zone_watermark_ok(struct zone *z, unsigned int order, /* free_pages may go negative - that's OK */ long min = mark; int o; - long free_cma = 0; + unsigned long free_cma = 0; free_pages -= (1 << order) - 1; if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_HIGH) @@ -2280,7 +2280,7 @@ bool zone_watermark_ok(struct zone *z, unsigned int order, unsigned long mark, bool zone_watermark_ok_safe(struct zone *z, unsigned int order, unsigned long mark, int classzone_idx, int alloc_flags) { - long free_pages = zone_page_state(z, NR_FREE_PAGES); + unsigned long free_pages = zone_page_state(z, NR_FREE_PAGES); if (z->percpu_drift_mark && free_pages < z->percpu_drift_mark) free_pages = zone_page_state_snapshot(z, NR_FREE_PAGES); -- 2.5.3 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>