linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 4/8] arm64: parse cpu capacity-dmips-mhz from DT

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Message-ID: <20160615134938.GA2282@sirena.org.uk>
Date:	Wed, 15 Jun 2016 14:49:38 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@....com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	peterz@...radead.org, vincent.guittot@...aro.org,
	robh+dt@...nel.org, mark.rutland@....com, linux@....linux.org.uk,
	sudeep.holla@....com, lorenzo.pieralisi@....com,
	catalin.marinas@....com, will.deacon@....com,
	morten.rasmussen@....com, dietmar.eggemann@....com,
	sgurrappadi@...dia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 4/8] arm64: parse cpu capacity-dmips-mhz from DT

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 11:17:53AM +0100, Juri Lelli wrote:

> +		if (!raw_capacity) {
> +			raw_capacity = kzalloc(sizeof(*raw_capacity) *
> +					num_possible_cpus(), GFP_KERNEL);

kcalloc()?

> +			if (!raw_capacity) {
> +				pr_err("cpu_capacity: failed to allocate memory"
> +				       " for raw capacities\n");

It's normally better to avoid splitting errors message so people can
grep if they see the error.

> +	} else {
> +		pr_err("cpu_capacity: missing %s raw capacity "
> +		       "(fallback to 1024 for all CPUs)\n",
> +				cpu_node->full_name);

That's going to complain fairly loudly for all existing DTs isn't it and
it's kind of redundant if all the cores have the same capacity (which is
a very common case)?  How about printing an error only if we already
found one, or printing a single warning at the end if we didn't get
anything?

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