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From: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com>
To: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, mingo@redhat.com, acme@kernel.org,
	jolsa@kernel.org, matt.fleming@intel.com, namhyung@kernel.org,
	milos@redhat.com, kan.liang@intel.com, rostedt@goodmis.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] tools-perf: Change -1 by false
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 12:08:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1442484533-19742-1-git-send-email-peter.senna@gmail.com> (raw)

Returning a negative value for a boolean function seem to have the
undesired effect of returning true. Replace -1 by false in a
bool-returning function.

The diff of the .s file before and after the change (for x86_64):
3907c3907
< 	movl	$1, %ebx
---
> 	xorl	%ebx, %ebx

while if -1 is replaced by true, the diff is empty.

This issue was found by the following Coccinelle semantic patch:
<smpl>
@@
identifier f;
constant C;
typedef bool;
@@
bool f (...){
<+...
* return -C;
...+>
}
</smpl>

Signed-off-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com>
---
 tools/perf/util/util.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/util.c b/tools/perf/util/util.c
index 49a5c6a..ce465b2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/util.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/util.c
@@ -639,7 +639,7 @@ bool find_process(const char *name)
 
 	dir = opendir(procfs__mountpoint());
 	if (!dir)
-		return -1;
+		return false;
 
 	/* Walk through the directory. */
 	while (ret && (d = readdir(dir)) != NULL) {
-- 
2.1.0


             reply	other threads:[~2015-09-17 10:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-17 10:08 Peter Senna Tschudin [this message]
2015-09-17 18:33 ` [PATCH] tools-perf: Change -1 by false Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-09-18  5:49 ` [tip:perf/urgent] perf tools: Bool functions shouldn't return -1 tip-bot for Peter Senna Tschudin

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