Re: [PATCH V2] rcu: change function declaration to bool

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 09:11:59AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 05:46:12PM +0200, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> > rcu_cpu_has_callbacks() is declared int but is actually returning bool
> > and as the function description states " * Return true if the specified 
> > CPU has any callback....", this probably should be a bool. All (3) 
> > call-sites currently treat it as bool.
> > 
> > Type-checking coccinelle spatches are being used to locate type mismatches
> > between function signatures and return values in this case this produced:
> > ./kernel/rcu/tree.c:3538 WARNING: return of wrong type
> >                     int != bool, 
> > 
> > Patch was compile tested with x86_64_defconfig (implies CONFIG_TREE_RCU=y)
> > 
> > Patch is against 4.1-rc3 (localversion-next is -next-20150511)
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I queued V4 with Josh's Reviewed-by.  I also capitalized the "change"
following the "rcu:" in the Subject line.

							Thanx, Paul

> Thanks!
> 
> > ---
> > 
> > V3: fix-up of commit message again (hope I got it right this time) as 
> >     requested by Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>/Steven Rostedt
> >     <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> >  kernel/rcu/tree.c |    2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> > index bcc5943..599550c 100644
> > --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> > +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> > @@ -3516,7 +3516,7 @@ static int rcu_pending(void)
> >   * non-NULL, store an indication of whether all callbacks are lazy.
> >   * (If there are no callbacks, all of them are deemed to be lazy.)
> >   */
> > -static int __maybe_unused rcu_cpu_has_callbacks(bool *all_lazy)
> > +static bool __maybe_unused rcu_cpu_has_callbacks(bool *all_lazy)
> >  {
> >  	bool al = true;
> >  	bool hc = false;
> > -- 
> > 1.7.10.4
> > 
> 

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