Re: [PATCH 11/21] drivers: base: Print a warning instead of panic() when register_cpu() fails

From: Gavin Shan
Date: Thu Nov 30 2023 - 22:49:20 EST



On 11/22/23 00:44, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
From: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>

loongarch, mips, parisc, riscv and sh all print a warning if
register_cpu() returns an error. Architectures that use
GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES call panic() instead.

Errors in this path indicate something is wrong with the firmware
description of the platform, but the kernel is able to keep running.

Downgrade this to a warning to make it easier to debug this issue.

This will allow architectures that switching over to GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES
to drop their warning, but keep the existing behaviour.

Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Shaoqin Huang <shahuang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/base/cpu.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)


Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@xxxxxxxxxx>