Re: [PATCH v21 1/5] kdump: return -ENOENT if required cmdline option does not exist

Baoquan He
2022-03-16T05:17:29Z

On 03/15/22 at 09:32pm, Leizhen (ThunderTown) wrote:
>
>
> On 2022/3/15 20:21, Baoquan He wrote:
> > On 03/15/22 at 07:57pm, Baoquan He wrote:
> >> On 02/27/22 at 11:07am, Zhen Lei wrote:
> >>> The crashkernel=Y,low is an optional command-line option. When it doesn't
> >>> exist, kernel will try to allocate minimum required memory below 4G
> >>> automatically. Give it a unique error code to distinguish it from other
> >>> error scenarios.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
> >>> ---
> >>> kernel/crash_core.c | 3 +--
> >>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/kernel/crash_core.c b/kernel/crash_core.c
> >>> index 256cf6db573cd09..4d57c03714f4e13 100644
> >>> --- a/kernel/crash_core.c
> >>> +++ b/kernel/crash_core.c
> >>> @@ -243,9 +243,8 @@ static int __init __parse_crashkernel(char *cmdline,
> >>> *crash_base = 0;
> >>>
> >>> ck_cmdline = get_last_crashkernel(cmdline, name, suffix);
> >>> -
> >>> if (!ck_cmdline)
> >>> - return -EINVAL;
> >>> + return -ENOENT;
> >>
> >> Firstly, I am not sure if '-ENOENT' is a right value to return. From the
> >> code comment of ENOENT, it's used for file or dir?
> >> #define ENOENT 2 /* No such file or directory */
>
> This error code does not return to user mode, so there is no problem.
> There are a lot of places in the kernel that are used this way. For example:
>
> int stop_one_cpu(unsigned int cpu, cpu_stop_fn_t fn, void *arg)
> {
> if (!cpu_stop_queue_work(cpu, &work))
> return -ENOENT;

OK, it's fine to me. Thanks for the investigation.