[RFC PATCH v2 8/9] smp: refactor on_each_cpu to void returning func

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Sun Jan 8 11:14:01 EST 2012


On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 03:32:28PM +0200, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> on_each_cpu returns the retunr value of smp_call_function
> which is hard coded to 0.
> 
> Refactor on_each_cpu to a void function and the few callers
> that check the return value to save compares and 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>
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> CC: Russell King <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>

As there's only one place in the ARM code where we look at the return
value, and you've patched that away in patch 1, this looks fine.  I've
not checked for users outside of arch/arm, so:

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

Thanks.



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