Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 19/21] treewide: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*()
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- To: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 19/21] treewide: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*()
- From: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 15:32:03 +0100
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On 16/01/2019 14:44, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> Add check for the return value of memblock_alloc*() functions and call
> panic() in case of error.
> The panic message repeats the one used by panicing memblock allocators with
> adjustment of parameters to include only relevant ones.
>
> The replacement was mostly automated with semantic patches like the one
> below with manual massaging of format strings.
>
> @@
> expression ptr, size, align;
> @@
> ptr = memblock_alloc(size, align);
> + if (!ptr)
> + panic("%s: Failed to allocate %lu bytes align=0x%lx\n", __func__,
> size, align);
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
For the Xen part:
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
Juergen
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