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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC 12/22] drivers: base: Print a warning instead of panic() when register_cpu() fails
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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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