From: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/base/cpu.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/base/cpu.c b/drivers/base/cpu.c index 579064fda97b..d31c936f0955 100644 --- a/drivers/base/cpu.c +++ b/drivers/base/cpu.c @@ -535,14 +535,15 @@ int __weak arch_register_cpu(int cpu) static void __init cpu_dev_register_generic(void) { - int i; + int i, ret; if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES)) return; for_each_present_cpu(i) { - if (arch_register_cpu(i)) - panic("Failed to register CPU device"); + ret = arch_register_cpu(i); + if (ret) + pr_warn("register_cpu %d failed (%d)\n", i, ret); } } -- 2.30.2