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

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Message-ID: <CAC4Lta3+GHLEMYNHsvx4vsN557vFdrBO_ROo8mN4JpG3T3ejJg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 23 May 2014 19:10:02 +0530
From:	Raghavendra KT <raghavendra.kt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <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 3:50 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> 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,  Please feel free to add
Reviewed-by: Raghavendra <raghavendra.kt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
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