Hi Guo, On Sat, Dec 21, 2024 at 11:43 AM Guo Weikang <guoweikang.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Before SLUB initialization, various subsystems used memblock_alloc to > allocate memory. In most cases, when memory allocation fails, an immediate > panic is required. To simplify this behavior and reduce repetitive checks, > introduce `memblock_alloc_or_panic`. This function ensures that memory > allocation failures result in a panic automatically, improving code > readability and consistency across subsystems that require this behavior. > > Signed-off-by: Guo Weikang <guoweikang.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> Thanks for your patch! > --- a/include/linux/memblock.h > +++ b/include/linux/memblock.h > @@ -417,6 +417,20 @@ static __always_inline void *memblock_alloc(phys_addr_t size, phys_addr_t align) > MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE, NUMA_NO_NODE); > } > > +static __always_inline void *__memblock_alloc_or_panic(phys_addr_t size, > + phys_addr_t align, > + const char *func) > +{ > + void *addr = memblock_alloc(size, align); > + > + if (unlikely(!addr)) > + panic("%s: Failed to allocate %llu bytes\n", func, size); > + return addr; > +} Please make this out-of-line, and move it to mm/memblock.c, so we have just a single copy in the final binary. > + > +#define memblock_alloc_or_panic(size, align) \ > + __memblock_alloc_or_panic(size, align, __func__) > + > static inline void *memblock_alloc_raw(phys_addr_t size, > phys_addr_t align) > { > diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds