Thread (44 messages) 44 messages, 6 authors, 2021-12-17

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

From: Sergei Shtylyov <hidden>
Date: 2021-12-10 19:35:47
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On 12/10/21 10:30 PM, Sergey Shtylyov wrote:

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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.
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Otherwise, I do not think that removing the "if (!irq)" hunk is safe. no ?
   Of course it isn't...
It's unsubstantiated statement. The vIRQ 0 shouldn't be returned by any of
those API calls.
   We do _not_ know what needs to be fixed, that's the problem, and that's why the WARN()
is there...
So, have you seen this warning (being reported) related to libahci_platform?
   No (as if you need to really see this while it's obvious from the code review).
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If no, what we are discussing about then? The workaround is redundant and
   I don't know. :-) Your arguments so far seem bogus (sorry! :-))...
It seems you haven't got them at all. The problems of platform_get_irq() et al
shouldn't be worked around in the callers.
   I have clearly explained to you what I'm working around there. If that wasn't clear
enough, I don't want to continue this talk anymore. Good luck with your patch (not this
one).
Good luck with yours, not the one that touches platform_get_irq_optional() though!
   Mmh, I'm not touching it any way that would break what your patch was trying to do,
unless you've re-thopught that. It also shoudn't matter whose patch gets merged 1st 
other than some small adaptation).
   BTW, looking at [1], this comment is wrong:

+ * Return: non-zero IRQ number on success, negative error number on failure.

It doesn't mention 0 which you return from this function.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ed7027fdf4ec41ed6df6814956dc11860232a9d5

MBR, Sergey
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