Re: [PATCH v3] cpuidle: tegra: Correctly handle result of arm_cpuidle_simple_enter()

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24.08.2020 19:02, Jon Hunter пишет:
> 
> On 14/08/2020 18:53, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>> 09.07.2020 20:35, Dmitry Osipenko пишет:
>>> The enter() callback of CPUIDLE drivers returns index of the entered idle
>>> state on success or a negative value on failure. The negative value could
>>> any negative value, i.e. it doesn't necessarily needs to be a error code.
>>> That's because CPUIDLE core only cares about the fact of failure and not
>>> about the reason of the enter() failure.
>>>
>>> Like every other enter() callback, the arm_cpuidle_simple_enter() returns
>>> the entered idle-index on success. Unlike some of other drivers, it never
>>> fails. It happened that TEGRA_C1=index=err=0 in the code of cpuidle-tegra
>>> driver, and thus, there is no problem for the cpuidle-tegra driver created
>>> by the typo in the code which assumes that the arm_cpuidle_simple_enter()
>>> returns a error code.
>>>
>>> The arm_cpuidle_simple_enter() also may return a -ENODEV error if CPU_IDLE
>>> is disabled in a kernel's config, but all CPUIDLE drivers are disabled if
>>> CPU_IDLE is disabled, including the cpuidle-tegra driver. So we can't ever
>>> see the error code from arm_cpuidle_simple_enter() today.
>>>
>>> Of course the code may get some changes in the future and then the
>>> typo may transform into a real bug, so let's correct the typo! The
>>> tegra_cpuidle_state_enter() is now changed to make it return the entered
>>> idle-index on success and negative error code on fail, which puts it on
>>> par with the arm_cpuidle_simple_enter(), making code consistent in regards
>>> to the error handling.
>>>
>>> This patch fixes a minor typo in the code, it doesn't fix any bugs.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Changelog:
>>>
>>> v3: The tegra_cpuidle_state_enter() now returns entered idle-index on
>>>     success instead of 0. Hence the error message will be shown by the
>>>     tegra-cpuidle driver if arm_cpuidle_simple_enter() will ever fail.
>>>     Again thanks to Jon Hunter!
>>
>> Hello, Jon! Do you see anything else that could be improved in this patch?
>>
> 
> Sorry for the delay. Looks good to me ...
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@xxxxxxxxxx>

No problems, thank you! :)




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