[RFC PATCH v2 1/9] arm: avoid using on_each_cpu hard coded ret value

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Sun Jan 8 11:12:12 EST 2012


On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 03:32:21PM +0200, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> on_each_cpu always returns a hard coded return code of zero.
> 
> Removing all tests based on this return value saves run time
> cycles for compares and code bloat for branches.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad at benyossef.com>
> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra at chello.nl>
> Reviewed-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86 at mina86.com>
> CC: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
> CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra at chello.nl>
> CC: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo at elte.hu>
> CC: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme at ghostprotocols.net>
> CC: Russell King <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>

Reviewed-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>

> CC: Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca>
> CC: Rob Herring <rob.herring at calxeda.com>
> CC: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> CC: devicetree-discuss at lists.ozlabs.org
> ---
>  arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c
> index 5bb91bf..6e9acb7 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c
> @@ -616,7 +616,7 @@ static int __init
>  cpu_pmu_reset(void)
>  {
>  	if (cpu_pmu && cpu_pmu->reset)
> -		return on_each_cpu(cpu_pmu->reset, NULL, 1);
> +		on_each_cpu(cpu_pmu->reset, NULL, 1);

There's not much to review here...

Thanks.

>  	return 0;
>  }
>  arch_initcall(cpu_pmu_reset);
> -- 
> 1.7.0.4
> 



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