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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/7] x86/UV/KDB/NMI: Updates for NMI/KDB handler for SGI UV


On 9/24/2013 12:52 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> Hm, do you test-build your patches?

Both build and test incessantly...

This series produces the following
> annoying warning:
>
> arch/x86/platform/uv/uv_nmi.c: In function ‘uv_nmi_setup’:
> arch/x86/platform/uv/uv_nmi.c:664:2: warning: the address of ‘uv_nmi_cpu_mask’ will always evaluate as ‘true’ [-Waddress]

I didn't hit the above warning since I never tried building without
CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK defined. I wonder if uv_nmi.c should not
be built if not on an enterprise sized system?

>
> This:
>
> alloc_cpumask_var(&uv_nmi_cpu_mask, GFP_KERNEL);
> BUG_ON(!uv_nmi_cpu_mask);
>
>
> the way to check for allocation failures is by checking the return value
> of alloc_cpumask_var():
>
> BUG_ON(!alloc_cpumask_var(&uv_nmi_cpu_mask, GFP_KERNEL));
>
> I've fixed this in the patch.

Thanks!! I should have remembered this since it was my code. (doh!)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ingo
>
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