The patch titled
Subject: memblock: memblock_alloc_try_nid: don't panic
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
memblock-memblock_alloc_try_nid-dont-panic.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/memblock-memblock_alloc_try_nid-dont-panic.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/memblock-memblock_alloc_try_nid-dont-panic.patch
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From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: memblock: memblock_alloc_try_nid: don't panic
As all the memblock_alloc*() users are now checking the return value and
panic() in case of error, the panic() call can be removed from the core
memblock allocator, namely memblock_alloc_try_nid().
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1548057848-15136-21-git-send-email-rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greentime Hu <green.hu@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Guo Ren <ren_guo@xxxxxxxxx> [c-sky]
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> [Xen]
Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stafford Horne <shorne@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memblock.c | 15 +++++----------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/memblock.c~memblock-memblock_alloc_try_nid-dont-panic
+++ a/mm/memblock.c
@@ -1526,7 +1526,7 @@ void * __init memblock_alloc_try_nid_nop
}
/**
- * memblock_alloc_try_nid - allocate boot memory block with panicking
+ * memblock_alloc_try_nid - allocate boot memory block
* @size: size of memory block to be allocated in bytes
* @align: alignment of the region and block's size
* @min_addr: the lower bound of the memory region from where the allocation
@@ -1536,9 +1536,8 @@ void * __init memblock_alloc_try_nid_nop
* allocate only from memory limited by memblock.current_limit value
* @nid: nid of the free area to find, %NUMA_NO_NODE for any node
*
- * Public panicking version of memblock_alloc_try_nid_nopanic()
- * which provides debug information (including caller info), if enabled,
- * and panics if the request can not be satisfied.
+ * Public function, provides additional debug information (including caller
+ * info), if enabled. This function zeroes the allocated memory.
*
* Return:
* Virtual address of allocated memory block on success, NULL on failure.
@@ -1555,14 +1554,10 @@ void * __init memblock_alloc_try_nid(
&max_addr, (void *)_RET_IP_);
ptr = memblock_alloc_internal(size, align,
min_addr, max_addr, nid);
- if (ptr) {
+ if (ptr)
memset(ptr, 0, size);
- return ptr;
- }
- panic("%s: Failed to allocate %llu bytes align=0x%llx nid=%d from=%pa max_addr=%pa\n",
- __func__, (u64)size, (u64)align, nid, &min_addr, &max_addr);
- return NULL;
+ return ptr;
}
/**
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
powerpc-prefer-memblock-apis-returning-virtual-address.patch
microblaze-prefer-memblock-api-returning-virtual-address.patch
sh-prefer-memblock-apis-returning-virtual-address.patch
openrisc-simplify-pte_alloc_one_kernel.patch
arch-simplify-several-early-memory-allocations.patch
arm-s390-unicore32-remove-oneliner-wrappers-for-memblock_alloc.patch
openrisc-prefer-memblock-apis-returning-virtual-address.patch
memblock-replace-memblock_alloc_baseanywhere-with-memblock_phys_alloc.patch
memblock-drop-memblock_alloc_base_nid.patch
memblock-emphasize-that-memblock_alloc_range-returns-a-physical-address.patch
memblock-memblock_phys_alloc_try_nid-dont-panic.patch
memblock-memblock_phys_alloc-dont-panic.patch
memblock-drop-__memblock_alloc_base.patch
memblock-drop-memblock_alloc_base.patch
memblock-refactor-internal-allocation-functions.patch
memblock-make-memblock_find_in_range_node-and-choose_memblock_flags-static.patch
arch-use-memblock_alloc-instead-of-memblock_alloc_fromsize-align-0.patch
arch-dont-memset0-memory-returned-by-memblock_alloc.patch
ia64-add-checks-for-the-return-value-of-memblock_alloc.patch
sparc-add-checks-for-the-return-value-of-memblock_alloc.patch
mm-percpu-add-checks-for-the-return-value-of-memblock_alloc.patch
init-main-add-checks-for-the-return-value-of-memblock_alloc.patch
swiotlb-add-checks-for-the-return-value-of-memblock_alloc.patch
treewide-add-checks-for-the-return-value-of-memblock_alloc.patch
memblock-memblock_alloc_try_nid-dont-panic.patch
memblock-drop-memblock_alloc__nopanic-variants.patch
