__setup() handlers should return 1 to obsolete_checksetup() in init/main.c to indicate that the boot option has been handled. A return of 0 causes the boot option/value to be listed as an Unknown kernel parameter and added to init's (limited) environment strings. The __setup() handler interface isn't meant to handle negative return values -- they are non-zero, so they mean "handled" (like a return value of 1 does), but that's just a quirk. So return 1 from parse_pmtmr(). Also print a warning message if kstrtouint() returns an error. Fixes: 6b148507d3d0 ("pmtmr: allow command line override of ioport") Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> From: Igor Zhbanov <i.zhbanov@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: lore.kernel.org/r/64644a2f-4a20-bab3-1e15-3b2cdd0defe3@xxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- v3: also cc: linux-acpi (Rafael) v2: correct the Fixes: tag (Dan Carpenter) drivers/clocksource/acpi_pm.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- linux-next-20220315.orig/drivers/clocksource/acpi_pm.c +++ linux-next-20220315/drivers/clocksource/acpi_pm.c @@ -229,8 +229,10 @@ static int __init parse_pmtmr(char *arg) int ret; ret = kstrtouint(arg, 16, &base); - if (ret) - return ret; + if (ret) { + pr_warn("PMTMR: invalid 'pmtmr=' value: '%s'\n", arg); + return 1; + } pr_info("PMTMR IOPort override: 0x%04x -> 0x%04x\n", pmtmr_ioport, base);