On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 11:41:43AM +0200, Laurent Dufour wrote: > At boot time, or when doing memory hot-add operations, if the links in > sysfs can't be created, the system is still able to run, so just report the > error in the kernel log rather than BUG_ON and potentially make system > unusable because the callpath can be called with locks held. > > Since the number of memory blocks managed could be high, the messages are > rate limited. > > As a consequence, link_mem_sections() has no status to report anymore. > > Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx> -- Oscar Salvador SUSE L3
