RE: [PATCH v2 1/3] x86/mce/inject: Remove call to mce_notify_irq()

[Zhuo, Qiuxu]

> From: Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@xxxxxxxx>
> [...]
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c
> @@ -584,6 +584,28 @@ bool mce_is_correctable(struct mce *m)  }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mce_is_correctable);
> 
> +/*
> + * Notify the user(s) about new machine check events.
> + * Can be called from interrupt context, but not from machine check/NMI
> + * context.
> + */
> +static int mce_notify_irq(void)

Why make mce_notify_irq() return an int?

> [...]
> -/*
> - * Notify the user(s) about new machine check events.
> - * Can be called from interrupt context, but not from machine check/NMI
> - * context.
> - */
> -bool mce_notify_irq(void)
> [...]