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authorJani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>2019-12-11 10:35:37 +0200
committerJani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>2019-12-11 11:13:50 +0200
commit023265ed75d8792ca1d555430a8985511d3f8788 (patch)
tree0940ba6f005f102062e5842b4ec8073ecd583ac0 /include/linux/kernel.h
parent2b68392e638dfa5cf4f7b558f62e3ea4def2e605 (diff)
parente42617b825f8073569da76dc4510bfa019b1c35a (diff)
Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next-queued
Sync up with v5.5-rc1 to get the updated lock_release() API among other things. Fix the conflict reported by Stephen Rothwell [1]. [1] http://lore.kernel.org/r/20191210093957.5120f717@canb.auug.org.au Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/kernel.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kernel.h26
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index d83d403dac2e..3adcb39fa6f5 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -328,13 +328,6 @@ extern int oops_may_print(void);
void do_exit(long error_code) __noreturn;
void complete_and_exit(struct completion *, long) __noreturn;
-#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT
-void refcount_error_report(struct pt_regs *regs, const char *err);
-#else
-static inline void refcount_error_report(struct pt_regs *regs, const char *err)
-{ }
-#endif
-
/* Internal, do not use. */
int __must_check _kstrtoul(const char *s, unsigned int base, unsigned long *res);
int __must_check _kstrtol(const char *s, unsigned int base, long *res);
@@ -355,8 +348,7 @@ int __must_check kstrtoll(const char *s, unsigned int base, long long *res);
* @res: Where to write the result of the conversion on success.
*
* Returns 0 on success, -ERANGE on overflow and -EINVAL on parsing error.
- * Used as a replacement for the obsolete simple_strtoull. Return code must
- * be checked.
+ * Used as a replacement for the simple_strtoull. Return code must be checked.
*/
static inline int __must_check kstrtoul(const char *s, unsigned int base, unsigned long *res)
{
@@ -384,8 +376,7 @@ static inline int __must_check kstrtoul(const char *s, unsigned int base, unsign
* @res: Where to write the result of the conversion on success.
*
* Returns 0 on success, -ERANGE on overflow and -EINVAL on parsing error.
- * Used as a replacement for the obsolete simple_strtoull. Return code must
- * be checked.
+ * Used as a replacement for the simple_strtoull. Return code must be checked.
*/
static inline int __must_check kstrtol(const char *s, unsigned int base, long *res)
{
@@ -461,7 +452,18 @@ static inline int __must_check kstrtos32_from_user(const char __user *s, size_t
return kstrtoint_from_user(s, count, base, res);
}
-/* Obsolete, do not use. Use kstrto<foo> instead */
+/*
+ * Use kstrto<foo> instead.
+ *
+ * NOTE: simple_strto<foo> does not check for the range overflow and,
+ * depending on the input, may give interesting results.
+ *
+ * Use these functions if and only if you cannot use kstrto<foo>, because
+ * the conversion ends on the first non-digit character, which may be far
+ * beyond the supported range. It might be useful to parse the strings like
+ * 10x50 or 12:21 without altering original string or temporary buffer in use.
+ * Keep in mind above caveat.
+ */
extern unsigned long simple_strtoul(const char *,char **,unsigned int);
extern long simple_strtol(const char *,char **,unsigned int);