On Wed,  5 Jul 2017 22:08:13 +0530
"Gautham R. Shenoy" <e...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> From: "Gautham R. Shenoy" <e...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> In the current idle initialization code, if there are failures in
> pnv_probe_idle_states, then no platform idle state is
> enabled. However, since the error is not propagated to the top-level
> function pnv_init_idle_states, we continue initialization in this
> top-level function even though this will never be used.
> 
> Hence change the the return type of pnv_probe_idle_states from void to
> int and in case of failures, bail out early on in
> pnv_init_idle_states.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <e...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npig...@gmail.com>

I wonder if the warnings are strong enough here to let people know
idle won't be used so power consumption will be high and performance
significantly reduced on SMT machines?

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