linux-kernel - Re: [tip:perf/urgent] hw-breakpoints: Let modify_user_hw

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Message-Id: <20091214213817.dea4fe86.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Date:	Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:38:17 +1100
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	fweisbec@...il.com, heiko.carstens@...ibm.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
	mingo@...e.hu
Cc:	tip-bot for Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	hpa@...or.com, mingo@...hat.com, fweisbec@...il.com,
	tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: [tip:perf/urgent] hw-breakpoints: Let
 modify_user_hw_breakpoint() return an int

Hi Ingo,

On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:49:44 GMT tip-bot for Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Commit-ID:  4983ee49cf0393fd786891dd53af41146cf9f98b
> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/4983ee49cf0393fd786891dd53af41146cf9f98b
> Author:     Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
> AuthorDate: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:24:12 +0100
> Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> CommitDate: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:42:57 +0100
> 
> hw-breakpoints: Let modify_user_hw_breakpoint() return an int
> 
> Let modify_user_hw_breakpoint return an int to avoid hundreds of
> compile warnings like this one:
> 
>  include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h: In function 'modify_user_hw_breakpoint':
>  include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h:96:
>   warning: return makes integer from pointer without a cast
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
> LKML-Reference: <20091214092412.GA5242@...ris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> ---
>  include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h b/include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h
> index 41235c9..3f3ac2f 100644
> --- a/include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h
> +++ b/include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h
> @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ static inline struct arch_hw_breakpoint *counter_arch_bp(struct perf_event *bp)
>  static inline struct perf_event *
>  register_user_hw_breakpoint(struct perf_event_attr *attr,
>  			    perf_overflow_handler_t triggered,
> -			    struct task_struct *tsk)	{ return NULL; }
> +			    struct task_struct *tsk)	{ return 0; }
>  static inline int
>  modify_user_hw_breakpoint(struct perf_event *bp,
>  			  struct perf_event_attr *attr)	{ return -ENOSYS; }

This applied incorrectly ... it was a fix for modify_user_hw_breakpoint(),
but that fix has already bee applied to perf/urgent ...

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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