[PATCH] POWERPC: idle: fix return value of __setup handler

Randy Dunlap rdunlap at infradead.org
Tue May 3 05:17:05 AEST 2022



On 5/2/22 11:45, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> 
> 
> Le 02/05/2022 à 17:50, Randy Dunlap a écrit :
>>
>>
>> On 5/2/22 06:19, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>>> Randy Dunlap <rdunlap at infradead.org> writes:
>>>> __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) argument or environment
>>>> strings. Also, error return codes don't mean anything to
>>>> obsolete_checksetup() -- only non-zero (usually 1) or zero.
>>>> So return 1 from powersave_off().
>>>>
>>>> Fixes: 302eca184fb8 ("[POWERPC] cell: use ppc_md->power_save instead of cbe_idle_loop")
>>>> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap at infradead.org>
>>>> From: Igor Zhbanov <i.zhbanov at omprussia.ru>
>>>
>>> What happened here? Is the patch actually from Igor? If so he should be
>>> the author, and it should include his SoB shouldn't it?
>>
>> I don't know what happened. I did the patches.
>> I'll resend them.
>>
> 
> Some erroneous copy/paste from 
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/patch/20220308024228.20477-1-rdunlap@infradead.org/ 
> ?

Yes, it should have been Reported-by:

> 
>> Thanks.
>>
>>> Same comment for "[PATCH] powerpc/4xx: cpm: fix return value of __setup handler".
>>>
>>> cheers
>>>
>>>> Link: lore.kernel.org/r/64644a2f-4a20-bab3-1e15-3b2cdd0defe3 at omprussia.ru
>>>> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
>>>> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
>>>> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
>>>> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
>>>> ---
>>>>   arch/powerpc/kernel/idle.c |    2 +-
>>>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>
>>>> --- linux-next-20220310.orig/arch/powerpc/kernel/idle.c
>>>> +++ linux-next-20220310/arch/powerpc/kernel/idle.c
>>>> @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ static int __init powersave_off(char *ar
>>>>   {
>>>>   	ppc_md.power_save = NULL;
>>>>   	cpuidle_disable = IDLE_POWERSAVE_OFF;
>>>> -	return 0;
>>>> +	return 1;
>>>>   }
>>>>   __setup("powersave=off", powersave_off);
>>>>   

-- 
~Randy


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