| Date | Mon, 13 Nov 2023 14:03:53 +1000 | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC 12/22] drivers: base: Print a warning instead of panic() when register_cpu() fails | From | Gavin Shan <> |
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On 11/7/23 20:30, Russell King (Oracle) wrote: > From: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> > > loongarch, mips, parisc, riscv and sh all print a warning if > register_cpu() returns an error. Architectures that use > GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES call panic() instead. > > Errors in this path indicate something is wrong with the firmware > description of the platform, but the kernel is able to keep running. > > Downgrade this to a warning to make it easier to debug this issue. > > This will allow architectures that switching over to GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES > to drop their warning, but keep the existing behaviour. > > Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> > Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> > Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> > --- > drivers/base/cpu.c | 7 ++++--- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) >
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
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