The patch titled
Subject: drivers/firmware/memmap.c: modify memblock_alloc to memblock_alloc_nopanic
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
firmware-memmap-modify-memblock_alloc-to-memblock_alloc_nopanic.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/firmware-memmap-modify-memblock_alloc-to-memblock_alloc_nopanic.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/firmware-memmap-modify-memblock_alloc-to-memblock_alloc_nopanic.patch
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From: "huang.zijiang" <huang.zijiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: drivers/firmware/memmap.c: modify memblock_alloc to memblock_alloc_nopanic
memblock_alloc() never returns NULL because panic never returns.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1545640882-42009-1-git-send-email-huang.zijiang@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: huang.zijiang <huang.zijiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Yi Wang <wang.yi59@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
--- a/drivers/firmware/memmap.c~firmware-memmap-modify-memblock_alloc-to-memblock_alloc_nopanic
+++ a/drivers/firmware/memmap.c
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ int __init firmware_map_add_early(u64 st
{
struct firmware_map_entry *entry;
- entry = memblock_alloc(sizeof(struct firmware_map_entry),
+ entry = memblock_alloc_nopanic(sizeof(struct firmware_map_entry),
SMP_CACHE_BYTES);
if (WARN_ON(!entry))
return -ENOMEM;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from huang.zijiang@xxxxxxxxxx are
firmware-memmap-modify-memblock_alloc-to-memblock_alloc_nopanic.patch
