From: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
To: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clocksource: dw_apb: fix error check
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 16:49:10 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130527134910.GU5037@tarshish> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51A35C2F.4000201@linaro.org>
Hi Daniel,
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 03:14:23PM +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 05/27/2013 01:51 PM, Baruch Siach wrote:
> > irq_of_parse_and_map() returns 0 on error, while the code checks for NO_IRQ.
> > This breaks on platforms that have NO_IRQ != 0.
> >
> > Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
> > ---
>
> Shouldn't the 'irq_of_parse_and_map' function to be fixed and return
> NO_IRQ in case of error ? (even if some code checks the return value is
> 'zero' in case of error [1], while some other code checks NO_IRQ [2]).
Probably not. See http://lwn.net/Articles/470820/.
baruch
> [1]
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/x86/kernel/devicetree.c#n124
>
> [2]
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_msi.c#n344
>
>
> > drivers/clocksource/dw_apb_timer_of.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/dw_apb_timer_of.c b/drivers/clocksource/dw_apb_timer_of.c
> > index 9fdb4d3..843d43b 100644
> > --- a/drivers/clocksource/dw_apb_timer_of.c
> > +++ b/drivers/clocksource/dw_apb_timer_of.c
> > @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ static void add_clockevent(struct device_node *event_timer)
> > u32 irq, rate;
> >
> > irq = irq_of_parse_and_map(event_timer, 0);
> > - if (irq == NO_IRQ)
> > + if (irq == 0)
> > panic("No IRQ for clock event timer");
> >
> > timer_get_base_and_rate(event_timer, &iobase, &rate);
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-27 13:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-27 11:51 [PATCH] clocksource: dw_apb: fix error check Baruch Siach
2013-05-27 13:14 ` Daniel Lezcano
2013-05-27 13:49 ` Baruch Siach [this message]
2013-05-27 14:27 ` Daniel Lezcano
2013-05-29 8:22 ` Daniel Lezcano
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