cpu/hotplug: Clarify description of __cpuhp_setup_state() return value

When invoked with CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN state __cpuhp_setup_state()
is expected to return positive value which is the hotplug state that
the routine assigns.

Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: viresh.kumar@linaro.org
Cc: bigeasy@linutronix.de
Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481814058-4799-2-git-send-email-boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c
index 217fd2e7f4354140146c910f8de0607458462557..5339aca811d2289690198119206eaa42d959452f 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/cpu.c
+++ b/kernel/cpu.c
@@ -1586,7 +1586,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__cpuhp_state_add_instance);
  * @startup:   startup callback function
  * @teardown:  teardown callback function
  *
- * Returns 0 if successful, otherwise a proper error code
+ * Returns:
+ *   On success:
+ *      Positive state number if @state is CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN
+ *      0 for all other states
+ *   On failure: proper (negative) error code
  */
 int __cpuhp_setup_state(enum cpuhp_state state,
                        const char *name, bool invoke,