On Friday, December 14, 2012 04:08:34 PM Adrian Huang wrote:
> If the persistent store is empty initially, the function 'erst_dbg_read'
> returns a nonzero value. The better way is to return a zero indicating the
> read operation reaches EOF.
>
> Tested on two different servers.
I'm queuing this up for submission as v3.8 material.
Thanks,
Rafael
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Huang <adrian.hu...@hp.com>
> ---
> drivers/acpi/apei/erst-dbg.c | 11 ++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/erst-dbg.c b/drivers/acpi/apei/erst-dbg.c
> index 903549d..04ab5c9 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/apei/erst-dbg.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/erst-dbg.c
> @@ -111,8 +111,17 @@ retry_next:
> if (rc)
> goto out;
> /* no more record */
> - if (id == APEI_ERST_INVALID_RECORD_ID)
> + if (id == APEI_ERST_INVALID_RECORD_ID) {
> + /*
> + * If the persistent store is empty initially, the function
> + * 'erst_read' below will return "-ENOENT" value. This causes
> + * 'retry_next' label is entered again. The returned value
> + * should be zero indicating the read operation is EOF.
> + */
> + len = 0;
> +
> goto out;
> + }
> retry:
> rc = len = erst_read(id, erst_dbg_buf, erst_dbg_buf_len);
> /* The record may be cleared by others, try read next record */
>
--
I speak only for myself.
Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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