From 8f2faba66adabc2edd3f9904cc47bc56ea2e6e3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Rutland <Mark.Rutland@arm.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:10:06 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: perf: simplify __hw_perf_event_init err handling

Currently __hw_perf_event_init has an err variable that's ignored right
until the end, where it's initialised, conditionally set, and then used
as a boolean flag deciding whether to return another error code.

This patch removes the err variable and simplifies the associated error
handling logic.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
---
 arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c | 8 +++-----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c
index 6df1969811c83..31e0eb353cd80 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ __hw_perf_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
 {
 	struct arm_pmu *armpmu = to_arm_pmu(event->pmu);
 	struct hw_perf_event *hwc = &event->hw;
-	int mapping, err;
+	int mapping;
 
 	mapping = armpmu->map_event(event);
 
@@ -399,14 +399,12 @@ __hw_perf_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
 		local64_set(&hwc->period_left, hwc->sample_period);
 	}
 
-	err = 0;
 	if (event->group_leader != event) {
-		err = validate_group(event);
-		if (err)
+		if (validate_group(event) != 0);
 			return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-	return err;
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static int armpmu_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
-- 
2.39.5