linux-kernel - [patch] sched: signedness bug in yield

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Date:	Tue, 5 Feb 2013 14:37:51 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	kbuild@...org
Subject: [patch] sched: signedness bug in yield_to()

In 7b270f6099 "sched: Bail out of yield_to when source and target
runqueue has one task" we changed this to store -ESRCH so it needs to
be signed.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 3e7b280..7ba7ea5 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -4384,7 +4384,7 @@ bool __sched yield_to(struct task_struct *p, bool preempt)
 	struct task_struct *curr = current;
 	struct rq *rq, *p_rq;
 	unsigned long flags;
-	bool yielded = 0;
+	int yielded = 0;
 
 	local_irq_save(flags);
 	rq = this_rq();
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