Out of memory condition is not a bug and while we can't add new memory in
such case crashing the system seems wrong. Propagating the return value
from register_memory_resource() requires interface change.
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sheng Yong <shengyong1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zhu Guihua <zhugh.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes since v1:
- Use ERR_PTR/PTR_ERR/IS_ERR() [David Rientjes]
---
mm/memory_hotplug.c | 9 +++++----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index a042a9d..92f9595 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -131,7 +131,8 @@ static struct resource *register_memory_resource(u64 start, u64 size)
{
struct resource *res;
res = kzalloc(sizeof(struct resource), GFP_KERNEL);
- BUG_ON(!res);
+ if (!res)
+ return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
res->name = "System RAM";
res->start = start;
@@ -140,7 +141,7 @@ static struct resource *register_memory_resource(u64 start, u64 size)
if (request_resource(&iomem_resource, res) < 0) {
pr_debug("System RAM resource %pR cannot be added\n", res);
kfree(res);
- res = NULL;
+ return ERR_PTR(-EEXIST);
}
return res;
}
@@ -1312,8 +1313,8 @@ int __ref add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size)
int ret;
res = register_memory_resource(start, size);
- if (!res)
- return -EEXIST;
+ if (IS_ERR(res))
+ return PTR_ERR(res);
ret = add_memory_resource(nid, res);
if (ret < 0)
--
2.4.3
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