Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] ACPI / processor: Introduce invalid_phys_cpuid()

[Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org>]

On 2015年05月12日 00:35, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 02:14:01PM +0100, Hanjun Guo wrote:
>> On 2015???05???05??? 19:25, Sudeep Holla wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 05/05/15 03:46, Hanjun Guo wrote:
>>>> Introduce invalid_phys_cpuid() to identify cpu with invalid
>>>> physical ID, then used it as replacement of the direct comparisons
>>>> with PHYS_CPUID_INVALID.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org>
>>>> ---
>>>>    drivers/acpi/acpi_processor.c | 4 ++--
>>>>    drivers/acpi/processor_core.c | 4 ++--
>>>>    include/linux/acpi.h          | 5 +++++
>>>>    3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpi_processor.c
>>>> b/drivers/acpi/acpi_processor.c
>>>> index 62c846b..92a5f73 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_processor.c
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>> diff --git a/include/linux/acpi.h b/include/linux/acpi.h
>>>> index 913b49f..cc82ff3 100644
>>>> --- a/include/linux/acpi.h
>>>> +++ b/include/linux/acpi.h
>>>> @@ -163,6 +163,11 @@ static inline bool invalid_logical_cpuid(u32 cpuid)
>>>>        return (int)cpuid < 0;
>>>>    }
>>>>
>>>> +static inline bool invalid_phys_cpuid(phys_cpuid_t phys_id)
>>>> +{
>>>> +    return (int)phys_id < 0;
>>>
>>> Should this be phys_id == PHYS_CPUID_INVALID ? else I don't see why we
>>> need to even define PHYS_CPUID_INVALID
>>
>> I'm OK with this. For now, CPU phys_id will be valid value or
>> PHYS_CPUID_INVALID in all cases for ACPI processor driver, but
>> I want ask Rafael's opinion on this, is it OK to you too, Rafael?
>
> Is your worry related to functions returning error values
> other than PHYS_CPUID_INVALID (when they are expected to return a
> physical id) ?

Yes.

> Is there any in the current kernel ?

No such returns as far as I know.

>
> static inline bool invalid_phys_cpuid(phys_cpuid_t phys_id)
> {
> 	return phys_id == PHYS_CPUID_INVALID;
> }
>
> This should do, and if we need more mapping functions that are supposed
> to return physical ids they should return PHYS_CPUID_INVALID on failure.

OK, I will send a update version for this patch only.

Thanks
Hanjun