[PATCH v4 03/17] watchdog/hardlockup: change watchdog_nmi_enable() to void

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Thu May 4 19:45:00 PDT 2023


On Fri May 5, 2023 at 8:13 AM AEST, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> From: Lecopzer Chen <lecopzer.chen at mediatek.com>
>
> Nobody cares about the return value of watchdog_nmi_enable(),
> changing its prototype to void.
>

Acked-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>

> Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Lecopzer Chen <lecopzer.chen at mediatek.com>
> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek at suse.com>
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders at chromium.org>
> ---
> I yanked this patch from the mailing lists [1] into my series just to
> make it easier to avoid conflicts between my series and the one adding
> the arm64 perf hardlockup detector, in case someone wanted to test
> them both together. This is a nice cleanup and could land together
> with the rest of my series if that makes sense.
>
> I changed the patch prefix to match others in my series.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220903093415.15850-3-lecopzer.chen@mediatek.com/
>
> Changes in v4:
> - Pulled ("change watchdog_nmi_enable() to void") into my series for v4.
>
>  arch/sparc/kernel/nmi.c | 8 +++-----
>  include/linux/nmi.h     | 2 +-
>  kernel/watchdog.c       | 3 +--
>  3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/nmi.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/nmi.c
> index 060fff95a305..5dcf31f7e81f 100644
> --- a/arch/sparc/kernel/nmi.c
> +++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/nmi.c
> @@ -282,11 +282,11 @@ __setup("nmi_watchdog=", setup_nmi_watchdog);
>   * sparc specific NMI watchdog enable function.
>   * Enables watchdog if it is not enabled already.
>   */
> -int watchdog_nmi_enable(unsigned int cpu)
> +void watchdog_nmi_enable(unsigned int cpu)
>  {
>  	if (atomic_read(&nmi_active) == -1) {
>  		pr_warn("NMI watchdog cannot be enabled or disabled\n");
> -		return -1;
> +		return;
>  	}
>  
>  	/*
> @@ -295,11 +295,9 @@ int watchdog_nmi_enable(unsigned int cpu)
>  	 * process first.
>  	 */
>  	if (!nmi_init_done)
> -		return 0;
> +		return;
>  
>  	smp_call_function_single(cpu, start_nmi_watchdog, NULL, 1);
> -
> -	return 0;
>  }
>  /*
>   * sparc specific NMI watchdog disable function.
> diff --git a/include/linux/nmi.h b/include/linux/nmi.h
> index 771d77b62bc1..454fe99c4874 100644
> --- a/include/linux/nmi.h
> +++ b/include/linux/nmi.h
> @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ static inline int hardlockup_detector_perf_init(void) { return 0; }
>  void watchdog_nmi_stop(void);
>  void watchdog_nmi_start(void);
>  int watchdog_nmi_probe(void);
> -int watchdog_nmi_enable(unsigned int cpu);
> +void watchdog_nmi_enable(unsigned int cpu);
>  void watchdog_nmi_disable(unsigned int cpu);
>  
>  void lockup_detector_reconfigure(void);
> diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
> index 582d572e1379..c705a18b26bf 100644
> --- a/kernel/watchdog.c
> +++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
> @@ -93,10 +93,9 @@ __setup("nmi_watchdog=", hardlockup_panic_setup);
>   * softlockup watchdog start and stop. The arch must select the
>   * SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR Kconfig.
>   */
> -int __weak watchdog_nmi_enable(unsigned int cpu)
> +void __weak watchdog_nmi_enable(unsigned int cpu)
>  {
>  	hardlockup_detector_perf_enable();
> -	return 0;
>  }
>  
>  void __weak watchdog_nmi_disable(unsigned int cpu)
> -- 
> 2.40.1.521.gf1e218fcd8-goog




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