Currently, onlining or offlining a CPU failure by one of the cpu
notifiers error always cause -EINVAL error.
(i.e. writing 0 or 1 to /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online gets EINVAL)

To get better error reporting rather than always getting -EINVAL,
This changes cpu_notify() to return -errno value with notifier_to_errno() and
fix the callers. Now that cpu notifiers can return encapsulate errno value.

Currently, all cpu hotplug notifiers return NOTIFY_OK, NOTIFY_BAD,
or NOTIFY_DONE. So cpu_notify() can returns 0 or -EPERM with this change
for now.
(notifier_to_errno(NOTIFY_OK) == 0, notifier_to_errno(NOTIFY_DONE) == 0,
notifier_to_errno(NOTIFY_BAD) == -EPERM)

Forthcoming patches convert several cpu notifiers to return encapsulate
errno value with notifier_from_errno().

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
---
 kernel/cpu.c |   14 ++++++++------
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c
index bc9c301..d3f335e 100644
--- a/kernel/cpu.c
+++ b/kernel/cpu.c
@@ -136,8 +136,12 @@ int __ref register_cpu_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
 static int __cpu_notify(unsigned long val, void *v, int nr_to_call,
 			int *nr_calls)
 {
-	return __raw_notifier_call_chain(&cpu_chain, val, v, nr_to_call,
+	int ret;
+
+	ret = __raw_notifier_call_chain(&cpu_chain, val, v, nr_to_call,
 					nr_calls);
+
+	return notifier_to_errno(ret);
 }
 
 static int cpu_notify(unsigned long val, void *v)
@@ -150,7 +154,7 @@ static void cpu_notify_nofail(unsigned long val, void *v)
 	int err;
 
 	err = cpu_notify(val, v);
-	BUG_ON(err == NOTIFY_BAD);
+	BUG_ON(err);
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
@@ -230,14 +234,13 @@ static int __ref _cpu_down(unsigned int cpu, int tasks_frozen)
 	cpu_hotplug_begin();
 	set_cpu_active(cpu, false);
 	err = __cpu_notify(CPU_DOWN_PREPARE | mod, hcpu, -1, &nr_calls);
-	if (err == NOTIFY_BAD) {
+	if (err) {
 		set_cpu_active(cpu, true);
 
 		nr_calls--;
 		__cpu_notify(CPU_DOWN_FAILED | mod, hcpu, nr_calls, NULL);
 		printk("%s: attempt to take down CPU %u failed\n",
 				__func__, cpu);
-		err = -EINVAL;
 		goto out_release;
 	}
 
@@ -314,11 +317,10 @@ static int __cpuinit _cpu_up(unsigned int cpu, int tasks_frozen)
 
 	cpu_hotplug_begin();
 	ret = __cpu_notify(CPU_UP_PREPARE | mod, hcpu, -1, &nr_calls);
-	if (ret == NOTIFY_BAD) {
+	if (ret) {
 		nr_calls--;
 		printk("%s: attempt to bring up CPU %u failed\n",
 				__func__, cpu);
-		ret = -EINVAL;
 		goto out_notify;
 	}
 
-- 
1.6.0.6

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