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Date:   Wed, 29 Mar 2017 09:06:03 +0100
From:   Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@....com>
To:     Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-pm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        LAK <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
        Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@....com>,
        Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        "gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/9] arm: fix return value of parse_cpu_capacity

On 29/03/17 09:37, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> On 27 March 2017 at 15:18, Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@....com> wrote:
> > parse_cpu_capacity() has to return 0 on failure, but it currently returns
> > 1 instead if raw_capacity kcalloc failed.
> >
> > Fix it by removing the negation of the return value.
> >
> > Cc: Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>
> > Reported-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@....com>
> > Fixes: 06073ee26775 ('ARM: 8621/3: parse cpu capacity-dmips-mhz from DT')
> > Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@....com>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm/kernel/topology.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c b/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c
> > index f8a3ab82e77f..4e4af809606a 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c
> > @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ static int __init parse_cpu_capacity(struct device_node *cpu_node, int cpu)
> >                         if (!raw_capacity) {
> >                                 pr_err("cpu_capacity: failed to allocate memory for raw capacities\n");
> >                                 cap_parsing_failed = true;
> > -                               return !ret;
> > +                               return ret;
> 
> Why not directly returning 0 ? whatever the value of ret, the parse of
> cpu capacity has failed in this case
> 

Sure, can change that.

Thanks,

- Juri

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