Re: [PATCH] sched/fair: Return true,false in voluntary_active_balance()

From: Valentin Schneider
Date: Thu May 07 2020 - 07:17:52 EST



On 07/05/20 12:06, Jason Yan wrote:
> Fix the following coccicheck warning:
>
> kernel/sched/fair.c:9375:9-10: WARNING: return of 0/1 in function
> 'voluntary_active_balance' with return type bool
>

It's perfectly safe to return 0/1 in a boolean function; that said seeing
as this is the second attempt at "fixing" this I'm tempted to say we should
pick it up...

> Signed-off-by: Jason Yan <yanaijie@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/sched/fair.c | 8 ++++----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index b3bb4d6e49c3..e8390106ada4 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -9373,7 +9373,7 @@ voluntary_active_balance(struct lb_env *env)
> struct sched_domain *sd = env->sd;
>
> if (asym_active_balance(env))
> - return 1;
> + return true;
>
> /*
> * The dst_cpu is idle and the src_cpu CPU has only 1 CFS task.
> @@ -9385,13 +9385,13 @@ voluntary_active_balance(struct lb_env *env)
> (env->src_rq->cfs.h_nr_running == 1)) {
> if ((check_cpu_capacity(env->src_rq, sd)) &&
> (capacity_of(env->src_cpu)*sd->imbalance_pct < capacity_of(env->dst_cpu)*100))
> - return 1;
> + return true;
> }
>
> if (env->migration_type == migrate_misfit)
> - return 1;
> + return true;
>
> - return 0;
> + return false;
> }
>
> static int need_active_balance(struct lb_env *env)