linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] rcu: change function declaration to bool

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Message-ID: <20150511144022.GB6130@x>
Date:	Mon, 11 May 2015 07:40:23 -0700
From:	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
To:	Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>
Cc:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rcu: change function declaration to bool

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 10:51:55AM +0200, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> rcu_cpu_has_callbacks() is declared int but is actually returning bool and
> all call-sites currently use it as bool so the declaration should be bool 
> as well.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>

The patch seems reasonable to me.  However...

> ---
> 
> ./kernel/rcu/tree.c:3538 WARNING: return of wrong type
>                     int != bool, 
> 
> as the description of rcu_cpu_has_callbacks() states:
> " * Return true if the specified CPU has any callback...."
> this probably should be a bool 
> All (3) call sites are conditions and are treating it as boolean.
> 
> Patch was compile tested with x86_64_defconfig (implies CONFIG_TREE_RCU=y)

...some of this information should be in the commit message, as well as
a description of what tool produced this warning.

With that changed,
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>

> Patch is against 4.1-rc3 (localversion-next is -next-20150511)
> 
>  kernel/rcu/tree.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> index bcc5943..599550c 100644
> --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> @@ -3516,7 +3516,7 @@ static int rcu_pending(void)
>   * non-NULL, store an indication of whether all callbacks are lazy.
>   * (If there are no callbacks, all of them are deemed to be lazy.)
>   */
> -static int __maybe_unused rcu_cpu_has_callbacks(bool *all_lazy)
> +static bool __maybe_unused rcu_cpu_has_callbacks(bool *all_lazy)
>  {
>  	bool al = true;
>  	bool hc = false;
> -- 
> 1.7.10.4
> 
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