This patch series includes some cleanups and Unregistration of
thread-imc pmu, if the kernel does not have core-imc registered.
The entire patch set has been verified using the static checker smatch.
Command used:
$ make ARCH=powerpc CHECK="<path>/smatch -p=kernel" C=1 vmlinux | tee warns.txt
Tests Done:
* Fail core-imc at init:
nest-imc - working
cpuhotplug - works as expected
thread-imc - not registered
* Fail thread-imc at init:
nest-imc - works
core-imc - works
cpuhotplug - works
* Fail nest-imc at init
core-imc - works
thread-imc -works
cpuhotplug - works
* Fail only one nest unit (say for mcs23)
Other nest-units - works
core-imc - works
thread-imc - works
cpuhotplug - works.
* Kexec works
The first three patches in this series addresses the comments by Dan Carpenter. Anju T Sudhakar (4): powerpc/perf: Rearrange memory freeing in imc init powerpc/perf: Replace the direct return with goto statement powerpc/perf: Return appropriate value for unknown domain powerpc/perf: Unregister thread-imc if core-imc not supported arch/powerpc/include/asm/imc-pmu.h | 1 + arch/powerpc/perf/imc-pmu.c | 64 +++++++++++++++++++------------ arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-imc.c | 22 +++++++++-- 3 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) -- 2.7.4
