[PATCH 02/14] drm/amd: Avoid showing an error about memory allocation in amdgpu_acpi_enumerate_xcc()

Mario Limonciello superm1 at kernel.org
Fri Mar 28 16:18:25 UTC 2025


On 3/27/2025 23:05, Lazar, Lijo wrote:
> 
> 
> On 3/28/2025 2:08 AM, Mario Limonciello wrote:
>> From: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello at amd.com>
>>
>> checkpatch.pl complains about unnecessary error messages for failing
>> to allocate memory. These aren't needed when the return code is -ENOMEM.
> 
> It's not about the error code. It conveys till what stage driver
> proceeded and when the failure happened. I do see other instances in
> kernel which do give an error message with -ENOMEM.
> 

OK Thanks.  I will change this to an ACPI handle message then (roll it 
into patch 1).


> Thanks,
> Lijo
> 
>> Drop such a message from amdgpu_acpi_enumerate_xcc().
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello at amd.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_acpi.c | 4 +---
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_acpi.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_acpi.c
>> index 1c5994de5a723..840901d65fed7 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_acpi.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_acpi.c
>> @@ -1116,10 +1116,8 @@ static int amdgpu_acpi_enumerate_xcc(void)
>>   
>>   		xcc_info = kzalloc(sizeof(struct amdgpu_acpi_xcc_info),
>>   				   GFP_KERNEL);
>> -		if (!xcc_info) {
>> -			DRM_ERROR("Failed to allocate memory for xcc info\n");
>> +		if (!xcc_info)
>>   			return -ENOMEM;
>> -		}
>>   
>>   		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&xcc_info->list);
>>   		xcc_info->handle = acpi_device_handle(acpi_dev);
> 



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