[PATCH v5 1/9] ARM/PCI: Replace panic with WARN messages on failures
Jingoo Han
jingoohan1 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 6 07:46:16 PDT 2015
On Wednesday, August 05, 2015 6:54 AM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>
> From: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com>
>
> In the ARM PCI bios32 layer, failures to dynamically allocate pci_sys_data
> for a PCI bus, or a PCI bus scan failure have to be considered serious
> warnings but they should not trigger a system panic so that at least the
> system is given a chance to be debugged.
>
> This patch replaces the panic statements with WARN() messages to improve
> error reporting in the ARM PCI bios32 layer.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas at google.com>
> Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
> CC: Russell King <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>
> CC: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jingoo Han <jingoohan1 at gmail.com>
In ARM, WARN message looks good.
Best regards,
Jingoo Han
> ---
> arch/arm/kernel/bios32.c | 10 ++++++----
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/bios32.c b/arch/arm/kernel/bios32.c
> index bf370bc..4e95260 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/bios32.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/bios32.c
> @@ -459,8 +459,8 @@ static void pcibios_init_hw(struct device *parent, struct hw_pci *hw,
>
> for (nr = busnr = 0; nr < hw->nr_controllers; nr++) {
> sys = kzalloc(sizeof(struct pci_sys_data), GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (!sys)
> - panic("PCI: unable to allocate sys data!");
> + if (WARN(!sys, "PCI: unable to allocate sys data!"))
> + break;
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_PCI_MSI
> sys->msi_ctrl = hw->msi_ctrl;
> @@ -489,8 +489,10 @@ static void pcibios_init_hw(struct device *parent, struct hw_pci *hw,
> sys->bus = pci_scan_root_bus(parent, sys->busnr,
> hw->ops, sys, &sys->resources);
>
> - if (!sys->bus)
> - panic("PCI: unable to scan bus!");
> + if (WARN(!sys->bus, "PCI: unable to scan bus!")) {
> + kfree(sys);
> + break;
> + }
>
> busnr = sys->bus->busn_res.end + 1;
>
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