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Christian Marangi
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There is currently a problem where, in the specific case of SMEM not initialized by SBL, any SMEM API wrongly returns PROBE_DEFER communicating wrong info to any user of this API. A better way to handle this would be to track the SMEM state and return a different kind of error than PROBE_DEFER. Rework the __smem handle to always init it to the error pointer -EPROBE_DEFER following what is already done by the SMEM API. If we detect that the SBL didn't initialized SMEM, set the __smem handle to the error pointer -ENODEV. Also rework the SMEM API to handle the __smem handle to be an error pointer and return it appropriately. This way user of the API can react and return a proper error or use fallback way for the failing API. While at it, change the return error when SMEM is not initialized by SBL also to -ENODEV to make it consistent with the __smem handle and use dev_err_probe() helper to return the message. Signed-off-by: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251031130835.7953-3-ansuelsmth@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <andersson@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.