linux-kernel - [patch 19/44] posix-cpu-timer: Remove pointless return value check

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Date:   Mon, 19 Aug 2019 16:32:00 +0200
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
        Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>
Subject: [patch 19/44] posix-cpu-timer: Remove pointless return value check

set_process_cpu_timer() checks already whether the clock id is valid. No
point in checking the return value of the sample function. That allows to
simplify the sample function later.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
---
 kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c |    5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c
@@ -1204,14 +1204,13 @@ void set_process_cpu_timer(struct task_s
 			   u64 *newval, u64 *oldval)
 {
 	u64 now;
-	int ret;
 
 	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(clock_idx >= CPUCLOCK_SCHED))
 		return;
 
-	ret = cpu_clock_sample_group(clock_idx, tsk, &now, true);
+	cpu_clock_sample_group(clock_idx, tsk, &now, true);
 
-	if (oldval && ret != -EINVAL) {
+	if (oldval) {
 		/*
 		 * We are setting itimer. The *oldval is absolute and we update
 		 * it to be relative, *newval argument is relative and we update