linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 2/9] cpu/SMT: Move smt/control simple exit cases earlier

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Date:   Wed, 28 Jun 2023 12:05:51 +0200
From:   Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        mpe@...erman.id.au, npiggin@...il.com, christophe.leroy@...roup.eu,
        tglx@...utronix.de, dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com, mingo@...hat.com,
        bp@...en8.de
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/9] cpu/SMT: Move smt/control simple exit cases earlier

From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>

Move the simple exit cases, ie. which don't depend on the value written,
earlier in the function. That makes it clearer that regardless of the
input those states can not be transitioned out of.

That does have a user-visible effect, in that the error returned will
now always be EPERM/ENODEV for those states, regardless of the value
written. Previously writing an invalid value would return EINVAL even
when in those states.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
---
 kernel/cpu.c | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c
index 237394e0574a..c67049bb3fc8 100644
--- a/kernel/cpu.c
+++ b/kernel/cpu.c
@@ -2482,6 +2482,12 @@ __store_smt_control(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
 {
 	int ctrlval, ret;
 
+	if (cpu_smt_control == CPU_SMT_FORCE_DISABLED)
+		return -EPERM;
+
+	if (cpu_smt_control == CPU_SMT_NOT_SUPPORTED)
+		return -ENODEV;
+
 	if (sysfs_streq(buf, "on"))
 		ctrlval = CPU_SMT_ENABLED;
 	else if (sysfs_streq(buf, "off"))
@@ -2491,12 +2497,6 @@ __store_smt_control(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
 	else
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	if (cpu_smt_control == CPU_SMT_FORCE_DISABLED)
-		return -EPERM;
-
-	if (cpu_smt_control == CPU_SMT_NOT_SUPPORTED)
-		return -ENODEV;
-
 	ret = lock_device_hotplug_sysfs();
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
-- 
2.41.0