mm/mprotect: use long for page accountings and retval

Switch to use type "long" for page accountings and retval across the whole
procedure of change_protection().

The change should have shrinked the possible maximum page number to be
half comparing to previous (ULONG_MAX / 2), but it shouldn't overflow on
any system either because the maximum possible pages touched by change
protection should be ULONG_MAX / PAGE_SIZE.

Two reasons to switch from "unsigned long" to "long":

  1. It suites better on count_vm_numa_events(), whose 2nd parameter takes
     a long type.

  2. It paves way for returning negative (error) values in the future.

Currently the only caller that consumes this retval is change_prot_numa(),
where the unsigned long was converted to an int.  Since at it, touching up
the numa code to also take a long, so it'll avoid any possible overflow
too during the int-size convertion.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230104225207.1066932-3-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Acked-by: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index d3558248a0f0..a86b8f15e2f0 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -631,7 +631,7 @@ unsigned long change_prot_numa(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 			unsigned long addr, unsigned long end)
 {
 	struct mmu_gather tlb;
-	int nr_updated;
+	long nr_updated;
 
 	tlb_gather_mmu(&tlb, vma->vm_mm);