On Friday 17 June 2016 03:39 PM, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> The init functions do not return any error. They behave as the following:
>
> - panic, thus leading to a kernel crash while another timer may work and
> make the system boot up correctly
>
> or
>
> - print an error and let the caller unaware if the state of the system
>
> Change that by converting the init functions to return an error conforming
> to the CLOCKSOURCE_OF_RET prototype.
>
> Proper error handling (rollback, errno value) will be changed later case
> by case, thus this change just return back an error or success in the init
> function.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezc...@linaro.org>
> ---
> arch/arc/kernel/time.c | 69
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
[...]
> evt->cpumask = cpumask_of(smp_processor_id());
> @@ -347,24 +355,31 @@ static void __init arc_clockevent_setup(struct
> device_node *node)
> /* Needs apriori irq_set_percpu_devid() done in intc map function */
> ret = request_percpu_irq(arc_timer_irq, timer_irq_handler,
> "Timer0 (per-cpu-tick)", evt);
> - if (ret)
> - panic("clockevent: unable to request irq\n");
> + if (ret) {
> + pr_err("clockevent: unable to request irq\n");
> + returnr ret;
oops I missed the typo here !
Daniel can u squash this to ur patch !
-Vineet
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