tree cb494b852aadbd797c0ce2ef90836c1f48d90b32
parent e816b57a337ea3b755de72bec38c10c864f23015
author Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> 1334831708 +0200
committer Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> 1334853028 +0200

x86, intel_cacheinfo: Fix error return code in amd_set_l3_disable_slot()

If the L3 disable slot is already in use, return -EEXIST instead of
-EINVAL. The caller, store_cache_disable(), checks this return value to
print an appropriate warning.

Also, we want to signal with -EEXIST that the current index we're
disabling has actually been already disabled on the node:

$ echo 12 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/cache/index3/cache_disable_0
$ echo 12 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/cache/index3/cache_disable_0
-bash: echo: write error: File exists
$ echo 12 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/cache/index3/cache_disable_1
-bash: echo: write error: File exists
$ echo 12 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu5/cache/index3/cache_disable_1
-bash: echo: write error: File exists

The old code would say

-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument

for disable slot 1 when playing the example above with no output in
dmesg, which is clearly misleading.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120419070053.GB16645@elgon.mountain
[Boris: add testing for the other index too]
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>