[PATCH v2] powerpc/lockdep: fix a false positive warning

Ingo Molnar mingo at kernel.org
Sun Sep 8 18:32:58 AEST 2019


* Qian Cai <cai at lca.pw> wrote:

> I thought about making it a bool in the first place, but since all 
> other similar helpers (arch_is_kernel_initmem_freed(), 
> arch_is_kernel_text(), arch_is_kernel_data() etc) could be bool too but 
> are not, I kept arch_is_bss_hole() just to be “int” for consistent.
> 
> Although then there is is_kernel_rodata() which is bool. I suppose I’ll 
> change arch_is_bss_hole() to bool, and then could have a follow-up 
> patch to covert all similar helpers to return boo instead.

Sounds good to me.

Thanks,

	Ingo


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