The patch titled stop_machine: convert cpu notifier to return encapsulate errno value has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is stop_machine-convert-cpu-notifier-to-return-encapsulate-errno-value.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: stop_machine: convert cpu notifier to return encapsulate errno value From: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx> In commit e6bde73b07edeb703d4c89c1daabc09c303de11f ("cpu-hotplug: return better errno on cpu hotplug failure"), the cpu notifier can return an encapsulated errno value. This converts the cpu notifier to return an encapsulated errno value for stop_machine(). Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/stop_machine.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/stop_machine.c~stop_machine-convert-cpu-notifier-to-return-encapsulate-errno-value kernel/stop_machine.c --- a/kernel/stop_machine.c~stop_machine-convert-cpu-notifier-to-return-encapsulate-errno-value +++ a/kernel/stop_machine.c @@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ static int __cpuinit cpu_stop_cpu_callba p = kthread_create(cpu_stopper_thread, stopper, "migration/%d", cpu); if (IS_ERR(p)) - return NOTIFY_BAD; + return notifier_from_errno(PTR_ERR(p)); sched_setscheduler_nocheck(p, SCHED_FIFO, ¶m); get_task_struct(p); stopper->thread = p; @@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ static int __init cpu_stop_init(void) /* start one for the boot cpu */ err = cpu_stop_cpu_callback(&cpu_stop_cpu_notifier, CPU_UP_PREPARE, bcpu); - BUG_ON(err == NOTIFY_BAD); + BUG_ON(err != NOTIFY_OK); cpu_stop_cpu_callback(&cpu_stop_cpu_notifier, CPU_ONLINE, bcpu); register_cpu_notifier(&cpu_stop_cpu_notifier); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx are stop_machine-convert-cpu-notifier-to-return-encapsulate-errno-value.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html