Re: [PATCH] time: tick-sched: use bool for tick_stopped

[yuankuiz]

Subject and commit message have been updated due for typo.
This patch is based on the tip of linux-pm-cpuild branch.

Thanks

On 2018-04-10 04:51 PM, yuankuiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: John Zhao <yuankuiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Variable tick_stopped returned by tick_nohz_tick_stopped
> can only be true / false values. Since the return type
> of the tick_nohz_tick_stopped is also bool, variable
> tick_stopped nice to have data type as 'bool' in place of
> the 'unsigned int'.
> Moreover, the executed instructions cost could be minimal
> without potiential data type conversion.
>
> Signed-off-by: John Zhao <yuankuiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  kernel/time/tick-sched.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.h b/kernel/time/tick-sched.h
> index 6de959a..4d34309 100644
> --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.h
> +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.h
> @@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ struct tick_sched {
>  	unsigned long			check_clocks;
>  	enum tick_nohz_mode		nohz_mode;
>
> +	bool				tick_stopped	: 1;
>  	unsigned int			inidle		: 1;
> -	unsigned int			tick_stopped	: 1;
>  	unsigned int			idle_active	: 1;
>  	unsigned int			do_timer_last	: 1;
>  	unsigned int			got_idle_tick	: 1;