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/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mike Kravetz <[email protected]>
Acked-by: James Houghton <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <[email protected]>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Cc: Muchun Song <[email protected]>
Cc: Nadav Amit <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

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