Re: [PATCH, RFC 1/8] ARM: localtimer: return percpu clkevt onregister

From: Felipe Balbi
Date: Tue Feb 19 2013 - 07:10:50 EST


Hi,

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 05:06:39PM +0530, Afzal Mohammed wrote:
> @@ -315,6 +315,7 @@ static struct local_timer_ops twd_lt_ops __cpuinitdata = {
> static int __init twd_local_timer_common_register(struct device_node *np)
> {
> int err;
> + struct clock_event_device *evt;
>
> twd_evt = alloc_percpu(struct clock_event_device *);
> if (!twd_evt) {
> @@ -328,8 +329,8 @@ static int __init twd_local_timer_common_register(struct device_node *np)
> goto out_free;
> }
>
> - err = local_timer_register(&twd_lt_ops);
> - if (err)
> + evt = local_timer_register(&twd_lt_ops);
> + if (IS_ERR(evt))
> goto out_irq;

this is wrong. Will return 0 even in the error case. Correct version
would be:

if (IS_ERR(evt)) {
err = PTR_ERR(evt);
goto out_irq;
}

--
balbi

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