[PATCH 1/6] mm: change to return bool for ptep_test_and_clear_young()

[Baolin Wang]

On 3/20/26 1:57 PM, Ritesh Harjani (IBM) wrote:
> Baolin Wang <baolin.wang at linux.alibaba.com> writes:
> 
>> Callers use ptep_test_and_clear_young() to clear the young flag and check
>> whether it was set. Change the return type to bool to make the intention
>> clearer.
>>
> 
> Right I checked all callers of ptep_test_and_clear_young(). I agree, we
> only need bool here.
> 
>> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang at linux.alibaba.com>
>> ---
>>   arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h             |  8 ++++----
>>   arch/arm64/mm/contpte.c                      |  4 ++--
>>   arch/microblaze/include/asm/pgtable.h        |  2 +-
>>   arch/parisc/include/asm/pgtable.h            |  6 +++---
>>   arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/32/pgtable.h |  4 ++--
>>   arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h |  6 +++---
>>   arch/powerpc/include/asm/nohash/pgtable.h    |  4 ++--
> 
> I looked at it because of powerpc changes, but ended up looking into all
> call sites anyways. So overall it LGTM (and I agree that we can remove
> the unnecessary externs from function declarations)
> 
> With that please feel free to add:
> Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list at gmail.com>

Thanks for reviewing. Will remove externs:)