mempolicy trivia: use pgoff_t in shared mempolicy tree

Prefer the more explicit "pgoff_t" to "unsigned long" when dealing with a
shared mempolicy tree.  Delete confusing comment about pseudo mm vmas.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5451157-3818-4af5-fd2c-5d26a5d1dc53@google.com
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Tejun heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mempolicy.h b/include/linux/mempolicy.h
index a807976fe95d..acdb12fcb6cd 100644
--- a/include/linux/mempolicy.h
+++ b/include/linux/mempolicy.h
@@ -105,22 +105,16 @@ static inline bool mpol_equal(struct mempolicy *a, struct mempolicy *b)
 
 /*
  * Tree of shared policies for a shared memory region.
- * Maintain the policies in a pseudo mm that contains vmas. The vmas
- * carry the policy. As a special twist the pseudo mm is indexed in pages, not
- * bytes, so that we can work with shared memory segments bigger than
- * unsigned long.
  */
-
-struct sp_node {
-	struct rb_node nd;
-	unsigned long start, end;
-	struct mempolicy *policy;
-};
-
 struct shared_policy {
 	struct rb_root root;
 	rwlock_t lock;
 };
+struct sp_node {
+	struct rb_node nd;
+	pgoff_t start, end;
+	struct mempolicy *policy;
+};
 
 int vma_dup_policy(struct vm_area_struct *src, struct vm_area_struct *dst);
 void mpol_shared_policy_init(struct shared_policy *sp, struct mempolicy *mpol);
@@ -128,7 +122,7 @@ int mpol_set_shared_policy(struct shared_policy *sp,
 			   struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct mempolicy *mpol);
 void mpol_free_shared_policy(struct shared_policy *sp);
 struct mempolicy *mpol_shared_policy_lookup(struct shared_policy *sp,
-					    unsigned long idx);
+					    pgoff_t idx);
 
 struct mempolicy *get_task_policy(struct task_struct *p);
 struct mempolicy *__get_vma_policy(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
@@ -214,7 +208,7 @@ static inline void mpol_free_shared_policy(struct shared_policy *sp)
 }
 
 static inline struct mempolicy *
-mpol_shared_policy_lookup(struct shared_policy *sp, unsigned long idx)
+mpol_shared_policy_lookup(struct shared_policy *sp, pgoff_t idx)
 {
 	return NULL;
 }