[PATCH v8 2/6] powerpc/code-patching: Use WARN_ON and fix check in poking_init

Russell Currey ruscur at russell.cc
Mon Oct 24 14:08:28 AEDT 2022


On Fri, 2022-10-21 at 16:22 +1100, Benjamin Gray wrote:
> From: "Christopher M. Riedl" <cmr at bluescreens.de>
> 
> The latest kernel docs list BUG_ON() as 'deprecated' and that they
> should be replaced with WARN_ON() (or pr_warn()) when possible. The
> BUG_ON() in poking_init() warrants a WARN_ON() rather than a
> pr_warn()
> since the error condition is deemed "unreachable".
> 
> Also take this opportunity to fix the failure check in the WARN_ON():
> cpuhp_setup_state(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN, ...) returns a positive
> integer
> on success and a negative integer on failure.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gray <bgray at linux.ibm.com>

Reviewed-by: Russell Currey <ruscur at russell.cc>


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