Re: [PATCH 11/21] drivers: base: Print a warning instead of panic() when register_cpu() fails
Jonathan Cameron <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Nov 2023 16:53:13 +0000
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.power-management.general,gmane.linux.acpi.devel,gmane.linux.kernel.cross-arch,gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel,gmane.linux.ports.riscv,gmane.linux.documentation,gmane.linux.ports.ia64,gmane.linux.ports.parisc |
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| Organization | Huawei Technologies Research and Development (UK) Ltd. |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Tue, 21 Nov 2023 13:44:46 +0000 Russell King <[email protected]> wrote: > From: James Morse <[email protected]> > > 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 <[email protected]> > Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <[email protected]> > Reviewed-by: Shaoqin Huang <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <[email protected]>