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SubjectRe: [Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH] Updated: Reworked Cell OProfile: SPU mutex lock fix
Please see my comments below.

-Roberta

On 30.04.08 13:35:12, Carl Love wrote:

[...]

> -int spu_sync_stop(void)
> +void spu_sync_stop(void)
> {
> unsigned long flags = 0;
> - int ret = spu_switch_event_unregister(&spu_active);
> - if (ret) {
> - printk(KERN_ERR "SPU_PROF: "
> - "%s, line %d: spu_switch_event_unregister returned %d\n",
> - __FUNCTION__, __LINE__, ret);
> - goto out;
> - }
> +
> + /* Ignoring the return value from the unregister
> + * call. A failed return value simply says there
> + * was no registered event. Hence there will not
> + * be any calls to process a switch event that
> + * could cause a problem.
> + */
> + spu_switch_event_unregister(&spu_active);

Better to use this here, to show the return value is ignored:

(void)spu_switch_event_unregister(...)

>
> spin_lock_irqsave(&cache_lock, flags);
> - ret = release_cached_info(RELEASE_ALL);
> + release_cached_info(RELEASE_ALL);

Dito.

> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cache_lock, flags);
> -out:
> pr_debug("spu_sync_stop -- done.\n");
> - return ret;
> + return;
> }
>
>
> Index: Cell_kernel_4_15_2008/arch/powerpc/oprofile/op_model_cell.c
> ===================================================================
> --- Cell_kernel_4_15_2008.orig/arch/powerpc/oprofile/op_model_cell.c
> +++ Cell_kernel_4_15_2008/arch/powerpc/oprofile/op_model_cell.c
> @@ -1191,15 +1191,15 @@ static int cell_sync_start(void)
> if (spu_cycle_reset)
> return spu_sync_start();
> else
> - return DO_GENERIC_SYNC;
> + return 0;
> }
>
> -static int cell_sync_stop(void)
> +static void cell_sync_stop(void)
> {
> if (spu_cycle_reset)
> - return spu_sync_stop();
> - else
> - return 1;
> + spu_sync_stop();

Same here.

> +
> + return;
> }
>
> struct op_powerpc_model op_model_cell = {

[...]

--
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Operating System Research Center
email: robert.richter@amd.com



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