Re: [PATCH v2] ACPI/PPTT: fixed some parameter type is not right

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 1:01 PM Xiongfeng Wang
<wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com> wrote:
>
> From: Tian Tao <tiantao6@huawei.com>
>
> The fourth parameter 'level' of function 'acpi_find_cache_level()' is a
> signed interger, but its caller 'acpi_find_cache_node()' passes that
> parameter an unsigned interger. This patch fixes the paramter type
> inconsistency.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tian Tao <tiantao6@huawei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com>
>
> ---
> v2:     fix the conflicts in the third hunk.
>         Modify the commit information a little bit.
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/pptt.c | 29 +++++++++++++++--------------
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/pptt.c b/drivers/acpi/pptt.c
> index f31544d..4ae9335 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/pptt.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/pptt.c
> @@ -98,11 +98,11 @@ static inline bool acpi_pptt_match_type(int table_type, int type)
>   *
>   * Return: The cache structure and the level we terminated with.
>   */
> -static int acpi_pptt_walk_cache(struct acpi_table_header *table_hdr,
> -                               int local_level,
> -                               struct acpi_subtable_header *res,
> -                               struct acpi_pptt_cache **found,
> -                               int level, int type)
> +static unsigned int acpi_pptt_walk_cache(struct acpi_table_header *table_hdr,
> +                                        unsigned int local_level,
> +                                        struct acpi_subtable_header *res,
> +                                        struct acpi_pptt_cache **found,
> +                                        unsigned int level, int type)
>  {
>         struct acpi_pptt_cache *cache;
>
> @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ static int acpi_pptt_walk_cache(struct acpi_table_header *table_hdr,
>                         if (*found != NULL && cache != *found)
>                                 pr_warn("Found duplicate cache level/type unable to determine uniqueness\n");
>
> -                       pr_debug("Found cache @ level %d\n", level);
> +                       pr_debug("Found cache @ level %u\n", level);
>                         *found = cache;
>                         /*
>                          * continue looking at this node's resource list
> @@ -132,16 +132,17 @@ static int acpi_pptt_walk_cache(struct acpi_table_header *table_hdr,
>         return local_level;
>  }
>
> -static struct acpi_pptt_cache *acpi_find_cache_level(struct acpi_table_header *table_hdr,
> -                                                    struct acpi_pptt_processor *cpu_node,
> -                                                    int *starting_level, int level,
> -                                                    int type)
> +static struct acpi_pptt_cache *
> +acpi_find_cache_level(struct acpi_table_header *table_hdr,
> +                     struct acpi_pptt_processor *cpu_node,
> +                     unsigned int *starting_level, unsigned int level,
> +                     int type)
>  {
>         struct acpi_subtable_header *res;
> -       int number_of_levels = *starting_level;
> +       unsigned int number_of_levels = *starting_level;
>         int resource = 0;
>         struct acpi_pptt_cache *ret = NULL;
> -       int local_level;
> +       unsigned int local_level;
>
>         /* walk down from processor node */
>         while ((res = acpi_get_pptt_resource(table_hdr, cpu_node, resource))) {
> @@ -321,12 +322,12 @@ static struct acpi_pptt_cache *acpi_find_cache_node(struct acpi_table_header *ta
>                                                     unsigned int level,
>                                                     struct acpi_pptt_processor **node)
>  {
> -       int total_levels = 0;
> +       unsigned int total_levels = 0;
>         struct acpi_pptt_cache *found = NULL;
>         struct acpi_pptt_processor *cpu_node;
>         u8 acpi_type = acpi_cache_type(type);
>
> -       pr_debug("Looking for CPU %d's level %d cache type %d\n",
> +       pr_debug("Looking for CPU %d's level %u cache type %d\n",
>                  acpi_cpu_id, level, acpi_type);
>
>         cpu_node = acpi_find_processor_node(table_hdr, acpi_cpu_id);
> --

Applied for 5.6 as "ACPI: PPTT: Consistently use unsigned int as
parameter type" with some minor changes in the changelog.

Thanks!