[PATCH RFC 12/22] drivers: base: Print a warning instead of panic() when register_cpu() fails

[Gavin Shan]

On 11/7/23 20:30, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> From: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
> 
> 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 at arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk>
> ---
>   drivers/base/cpu.c | 7 ++++---
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 

Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan at redhat.com>