From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: kjlu@umn.edu, pakki001@umn.edu,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Linux PM <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] base: fix a missing check of clk_prepare
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2019 21:21:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190101202119.GA13097@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJZ5v0hOKXkZbpchv9+23uTgZyeq_3oQHznPKR3-+X43JakGeg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue 2019-01-01 21:13:01, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 6:25 PM Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed 2018-12-26 10:37:54, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 3:47 AM Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > clk_prepare() could fail, so let's check its status, and if it fails,
> > > > issue an error message.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>
> > > > ---
> > > > drivers/base/power/clock_ops.c | 4 +++-
> > > > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/base/power/clock_ops.c b/drivers/base/power/clock_ops.c
> > > > index 5a42ae4078c2..cb6144fb24e2 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/base/power/clock_ops.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/base/power/clock_ops.c
> > > > @@ -65,7 +65,9 @@ static void pm_clk_acquire(struct device *dev, struct pm_clock_entry *ce)
> > > > if (IS_ERR(ce->clk)) {
> > > > ce->status = PCE_STATUS_ERROR;
> > > > } else {
> > > > - clk_prepare(ce->clk);
> > > > + if (clk_prepare(ce->clk))
> > > > + dev_err(dev, "clk_prepare failed.\n");
> > >
> > > I'm not sure that this is useful. The code continues regardless of
> > > the error anyway and it should at least set ce->status to
> > > PCE_STATUS_ERROR in the failing case.
> >
> > Maybe this is not complete fix, but dev_err() is preferable to silent
> > failure.
>
> Preferable to you I suppose?
Preferable to the poor person trying to figure out why his machine
does not work?
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-01 20:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-26 2:47 [PATCH] base: fix a missing check of clk_prepare Kangjie Lu
2018-12-26 9:37 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-12-31 17:25 ` Pavel Machek
2019-01-01 20:13 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-01-01 20:21 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2019-01-01 21:05 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2019-02-11 13:24 ` Pavel Machek
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