Re: [PATCH 11/21] drivers: base: Print a warning instead of panic() when register_cpu() fails
Gavin Shan <[email protected]> Fri, 1 Dec 2023 14:49:03 +1100
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On 11/22/23 00:44, Russell King (Oracle) 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]> > --- > drivers/base/cpu.c | 7 ++++--- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <[email protected]>