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From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com, Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64/cpufeature: Move BUG_ON() inside get_arm64_ftr_reg()
Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 12:49:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200520114941.GB18302@gaia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1589937774-20479-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com>

On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 06:52:54AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> There is no way to proceed when requested register could not be searched in
> arm64_ftr_reg[]. Requesting for a non present register would be an error as
> well. Hence lets just BUG_ON() when the search fails in get_arm64_ftr_reg()
> rather than checking for return value and doing the same in some individual
> callers.
> 
> But there are some callers that dont BUG_ON() upon search failure. It adds
> an argument 'failsafe' that provides required switch between callers based
> on whether they could proceed or not.
> 
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
> Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>

BTW, there should be no empty line between the Cc block and the SoB.

The patch looks fine. Just a note that the patch transforms a current
WARN_ON in a BUG_ON but that's fine by me.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-20 11:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-20  1:22 [PATCH] arm64/cpufeature: Move BUG_ON() inside get_arm64_ftr_reg() Anshuman Khandual
2020-05-20 11:49 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2020-05-20 12:20 ` Will Deacon
2020-05-20 15:47   ` Catalin Marinas
2020-05-20 17:39     ` Will Deacon
2020-05-21  3:15       ` Anshuman Khandual
2020-05-21 16:22         ` Will Deacon
2020-05-21 16:59           ` Catalin Marinas
2020-05-24 23:52             ` Anshuman Khandual
2020-05-26 12:19               ` Catalin Marinas
2020-05-21  3:12   ` Anshuman Khandual

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