[PATCH] selftests/powerpc: context_switch: Fix pthread errors

Cyril Bur cyrilbur at gmail.com
Tue Jul 4 11:21:15 AEST 2017


Turns out pthreads returns an errno and doesn't set errno. This doesn't
play well with perror().

Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur at gmail.com>
---
 .../selftests/powerpc/benchmarks/context_switch.c        | 16 +++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/benchmarks/context_switch.c b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/benchmarks/context_switch.c
index 778f5fbfd784..7486e532d3e2 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/benchmarks/context_switch.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/benchmarks/context_switch.c
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ static void touch(void)
 
 static void start_thread_on(void *(*fn)(void *), void *arg, unsigned long cpu)
 {
+	int rc;
 	pthread_t tid;
 	cpu_set_t cpuset;
 	pthread_attr_t attr;
@@ -82,14 +83,23 @@ static void start_thread_on(void *(*fn)(void *), void *arg, unsigned long cpu)
 	CPU_ZERO(&cpuset);
 	CPU_SET(cpu, &cpuset);
 
-	pthread_attr_init(&attr);
+	rc = pthread_attr_init(&attr);
+	if (rc) {
+		errno = rc;
+		perror("pthread_attr_init");
+		exit(1);
+	}
 
-	if (pthread_attr_setaffinity_np(&attr, sizeof(cpu_set_t), &cpuset)) {
+	rc = pthread_attr_setaffinity_np(&attr, sizeof(cpu_set_t), &cpuset);
+	if (rc)	{
+		errno = rc;
 		perror("pthread_attr_setaffinity_np");
 		exit(1);
 	}
 
-	if (pthread_create(&tid, &attr, fn, arg)) {
+	rc = pthread_create(&tid, &attr, fn, arg);
+	if (rc) {
+		errno = rc;
 		perror("pthread_create");
 		exit(1);
 	}
-- 
2.13.2



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