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From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com>
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, anton@samba.org,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch-powerpc: Return false instead of -EFAULT
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 19:47:34 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1442483254.26748.5.camel@ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1442481536-11088-1-git-send-email-peter.senna@gmail.com>

On Thu, 2015-09-17 at 11:18 +0200, Peter Senna Tschudin wrote:
> Returning a negative value for a boolean function seem to have the
> undesired effect of returning true. Replace -EINVAL by false in a
> bool-returning function.
> 
> The diff of the .s file before and after the change (using cross
> compilation) starts with:
> 
> 440,441c440,441
> < .L43:
> < 	li 3,1	 # D.25775,
> ---
> > .L42:
> > 	li 3,0	 # D.25775,
> ...
> 
> while if -EFAULT is replaced by true, the diff is empty.

Ah, that's rather unfortunate.

Can you post the full asm listing, for all three cases?

cheers

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-17  9:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-17  9:18 [PATCH] arch-powerpc: Return false instead of -EFAULT Peter Senna Tschudin
2015-09-17  9:47 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2015-09-17  9:58   ` Peter Senna Tschudin

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