[Skiboot] warn_unused_result for fsp_queue_msg()

[Vasant Hegde]

On 11/27/2014 11:30 AM, Stewart Smith wrote:
> I recently added a bunch of __warn_unused_result around the place.
>
> I tried adding it here to see what would happen:
>
> --- a/include/fsp.h
> +++ b/include/fsp.h
> @@ -661,7 +661,7 @@ extern void fsp_cancelmsg(struct fsp_msg *msg);
>    * commands to the FSP.
>    */
>   extern int fsp_queue_msg(struct fsp_msg *msg,
> -                        void (*comp)(struct fsp_msg *msg));
> +                        void (*comp)(struct fsp_msg *msg)) __warn_unused_result;
>
>   /* Synchronously send a command. If there's a response, the status is
>    * returned as a positive number. A negative result means an error
>
> and funnily enough, I ended up getting a *lot* of warnings.
>
> It seems we're quite sporadic in checking the result of fsp_queue_msg.
>
> there's a bunch of places in fsp.c which are all early boot and if we
> ever fail we should probably just abort - as this likely means we've
> somehow really screwed up by not detecting an FSP (thus active_fsp is
> NULL... I don't *think* there's anywhere but early boot where this could
> be the case) or we fail at allocating the fsp message (and ENOMEM during
> early boot is... well.. abort worthy).
>
> The bits that are interesting are runtime conditions... where we could
> run out of memory (eep!) and the typical call pattern is
> fsp_queue_msg(fsp_mkmsg()).
>
> So... what are peoples thoughts on this?
>
> I'm rather tempted to enable the warning and then force us to go and fix
> everywhere... and in the meantime spew warnings.

Make sense..  There are quite a few warning coming from drivers like LED, 
EPOW/DPO, fsp etc..

I'm making changes to LED driver.. Will include these changes as well.

-Vasant