[PATCH V8 04/10] powerpc, perf: Re organize PMU based branch filter processing in POWER8
Anshuman Khandual
khandual at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Jun 10 22:09:42 AEST 2015
On 06/10/2015 10:37 AM, Daniel Axtens wrote:
>
>> /* Every thing else is unsupported */
>> return -1;
> You're returning -1 as a unsigned 64bit number. Other code that reads
> this value tests for -1 and I think it works everywhere just because it
> wraps around consistently. But I would still rather not do this and I'm
> surprised it doesn't throw a warning.
Thats the existing code which is going away with this patch series.
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