Re: [PATCH 2/2] sched/pelt: Change the type of parameter running to bool

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Nov 25 2021 - 04:58:33 EST


On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 11:00:19AM +0800, Tang Yizhou wrote:
> Parameter 'running' in function ___update_load_sum() and
> accumulate_sum() describes whether an se is running or not, so change
> the type of it to bool to make the code more readable.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tang Yizhou <tangyizhou@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/sched/pelt.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/pelt.c b/kernel/sched/pelt.c
> index 3584df2a0b8e..2010b3bd6e49 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/pelt.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/pelt.c
> @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ static u32 __accumulate_pelt_segments(u64 periods, u32 d1, u32 d3)
> */
> static __always_inline u32
> accumulate_sum(u64 delta, struct sched_avg *sa,
> - unsigned long load, unsigned long runnable, int running)
> + unsigned long load, unsigned long runnable, bool running)
> {
> u32 contrib = (u32)delta; /* p == 0 -> delta < 1024 */
> u64 periods;
> @@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ accumulate_sum(u64 delta, struct sched_avg *sa,
> */
> static __always_inline int
> ___update_load_sum(u64 now, struct sched_avg *sa,
> - unsigned long load, unsigned long runnable, int running)
> + unsigned long load, unsigned long runnable, bool running)
> {
> u64 delta;

And this function has:

runnable = running = 0;

and then people complain about assigning 0 to _Bool, and then we get
idiocy like:

runnable = running = false;

Please...