Re: [PATCH] sched/fair: Return true,false in voluntary_active_balance()

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Thu May 07 2020 - 13:28:32 EST


On Thu, 07 May 2020 12:17:36 +0100
Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 07/05/20 12:06, Jason Yan wrote:
> > Fix the following coccicheck warning:
> >
> > kernel/sched/fair.c:9375:9-10: WARNING: return of 0/1 in function
> > 'voluntary_active_balance' with return type bool
> >
>
> It's perfectly safe to return 0/1 in a boolean function; that said seeing
> as this is the second attempt at "fixing" this I'm tempted to say we should
> pick it up...
>

Actually, I disagree. We should push back on the check to not warn on 0/1
of boolean. Why is this a warning?

Fixes like this just add noise to the git history.

-- Steve