[PATCH v3 3/9] arm: fix return value of parse_cpu_capacity

Vincent Guittot vincent.guittot at linaro.org
Wed Mar 29 00:37:37 PDT 2017


On 27 March 2017 at 15:18, Juri Lelli <juri.lelli at arm.com> wrote:
> parse_cpu_capacity() has to return 0 on failure, but it currently returns
> 1 instead if raw_capacity kcalloc failed.
>
> Fix it by removing the negation of the return value.
>
> Cc: Russell King <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>
> Reported-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen at arm.com>
> Fixes: 06073ee26775 ('ARM: 8621/3: parse cpu capacity-dmips-mhz from DT')
> Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli at arm.com>
> ---
>  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..4e4af809606a 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 ret;

Why not directly returning 0 ? whatever the value of ret, the parse of
cpu capacity has failed in this case

>                         }
>                 }
>                 capacity_scale = max(cpu_capacity, capacity_scale);
> --
> 2.10.0
>



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