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

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Message-ID: <20140523104648.GC30445@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:	Fri, 23 May 2014 12:46:48 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] sched: signedness bug in yield_to()

On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 01:20:42PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> yield_to() is supposed to return -ESRCH if there is no task to
> yield to, but because the type is bool that is the same as returning
> true.
> 
> The only place I see which cares is kvm_vcpu_on_spin().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

Thanks Dan!

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