On Wed 2019-01-16 15:44:21, Mike Rapoport wrote: > As all the memblock allocation functions return NULL in case of error > rather than panic(), the duplicates with _nopanic suffix can be removed. [...] > diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c > index c4f0a41..ae65221 100644 > --- a/kernel/printk/printk.c > +++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c > @@ -1147,17 +1147,14 @@ void __init setup_log_buf(int early) > if (!new_log_buf_len) > return; > > - if (early) { > - new_log_buf = > - memblock_alloc(new_log_buf_len, LOG_ALIGN); > - } else { > - new_log_buf = memblock_alloc_nopanic(new_log_buf_len, > - LOG_ALIGN); > - } > - > + new_log_buf = memblock_alloc(new_log_buf_len, LOG_ALIGN); The above change is enough. > if (unlikely(!new_log_buf)) { > - pr_err("log_buf_len: %lu bytes not available\n", > - new_log_buf_len); > + if (early) > + panic("log_buf_len: %lu bytes not available\n", > + new_log_buf_len); panic() is not needed here. printk() will just continue using the (smaller) static buffer. > + else > + pr_err("log_buf_len: %lu bytes not available\n", > + new_log_buf_len); > return; > } Best Regards, Petr