linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] sched: remove WARN_ON(!sd) from init_sched_groups

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Date:	Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:03:40 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Cc:	mingo@...hat.com, linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org,
	patches@...aro.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	robin.randhawa@....com, Steve.Bannister@....com,
	Liviu.Dudau@....com, charles.garcia-tobin@....com,
	arvind.chauhan@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] sched: remove WARN_ON(!sd) from
 init_sched_groups_power()

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 04:32:45PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> sd can't be NULL in init_sched_groups_power() and so checking it for NULL isn't
> useful. In case it is required, then also we need to rearrange the code a bit as
> we already accessed invalid pointer sd to get sg: sg = sd->groups.
> 

Err on the side of paranoia :-)
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