From b6ec57f4b92e9bae4617f7d98a054d45370284bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 16:40:25 -0800
Subject: thp: change pmd_trans_huge_lock() interface to return ptl

After THP refcounting rework we have only two possible return values
from pmd_trans_huge_lock(): success and failure.  Return-by-pointer for
ptl doesn't make much sense in this case.

Let's convert pmd_trans_huge_lock() to return ptl on success and NULL on
failure.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 mm/mincore.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'mm/mincore.c')

diff --git a/mm/mincore.c b/mm/mincore.c
index 2a565ed8bb49..563f32045490 100644
--- a/mm/mincore.c
+++ b/mm/mincore.c
@@ -117,7 +117,8 @@ static int mincore_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
 	unsigned char *vec = walk->private;
 	int nr = (end - addr) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 
-	if (pmd_trans_huge_lock(pmd, vma, &ptl)) {
+	ptl = pmd_trans_huge_lock(pmd, vma);
+	if (ptl) {
 		memset(vec, 1, nr);
 		spin_unlock(ptl);
 		goto out;
-- 
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