Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] ata: libahci_platform: Get rid of dup message when IRQ can't be retrieved

Andy Shevchenko
2021-12-13T11:47:53Z

On Sat, Dec 11, 2021 at 08:45:51AM +0900, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> On 2021/12/10 17:59, Sergey Shtylyov wrote:
> > On 12/10/21 1:49 AM, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> >
> >>> platform_get_irq() will print a message when it fails.
> >>> No need to repeat this.
> >>>
> >>> While at it, drop redundant check for 0 as platform_get_irq() spills
> >>> out a big WARN() in such case.
> >>
> >> The reason you should be able to remove the "if (!irq)" test is that
> >> platform_get_irq() never returns 0. At least, that is what the function kdoc
> >> says. But looking at platform_get_irq_optional(), which is called by
> >> platform_get_irq(), the out label is:
> >>
> >> WARN(ret == 0, "0 is an invalid IRQ number\n");
> >> return ret;
> >>
> >> So 0 will be returned as-is. That is rather weird. That should be fixed to
> >> return -ENXIO:
> >>
> >> if (WARN(ret == 0, "0 is an invalid IRQ number\n"))
> >> return -ENXIO;
> >> return ret;
> >
> > My unmerged patch (https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=163623041902285) does this
> > but returns -EINVAL instead.
>
> Thinking more about this, shouldn't this change go into platform_get_irq()
> instead of platform_get_irq_optional() ?
>
> The way I see it, I think that the intended behavior for
> platform_get_irq_optional() is:
> 1) If have IRQ, return it, always > 0
> 2) If no IRQ, return 0
> 3) If error, return < 0
> no ?

At least this is my understanding on how it _should_ be.

> And for platform_get_irq(), case (2) becomes an error.

Precisely!

> Is this the intended semantic ?
> I am really not sure here as the functions kdoc description and the code do not
> match. Which one is correct ?

The problem is that platform_get_irq_optional() doesn't follow above mentioned
logic and needs to be fixed. While trying to fix that it appears that it's not
an simple and 5 minutes task since it needs a revisiting of all callers first
followed by rectifying the API itself.

> >> Otherwise, I do not think that removing the "if (!irq)" hunk is safe. no ?
> >
> > Of course it isn't...

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko