linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 2/7] arm: fix return value of parse_cpu

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Date:   Wed, 31 May 2017 19:40:02 +0100
From:   Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>
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, sudeep.holla@....com,
        lorenzo.pieralisi@....com, catalin.marinas@....com,
        will.deacon@....com, morten.rasmussen@....com,
        dietmar.eggemann@....com, broonie@...nel.org,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/7] arm: fix return value of parse_cpu_capacity

On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 05:59:26PM +0100, Juri Lelli wrote:
> parse_cpu_capacity() has to return 0 on failure, but it currently returns
> 1 instead if raw_capacity kcalloc failed.
> 
> Fix it (by directly returning 0).
> 
> Cc: Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>

You can drop these Cc's now.  Thanks.

> 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>
> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>
> Acked-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aor.org>
> ---
>  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..1b8ec3054642 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 0;
>  			}
>  		}
>  		capacity_scale = max(cpu_capacity, capacity_scale);
> -- 
> 2.11.0
> 

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