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

[Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>]

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@osadl.org>

Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>

Thanks!

> ---
> 
> V3: fix-up of commit message again (hope I got it right this time) as 
>     requested by Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>/Steven Rostedt
>     <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> 
>  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
>