[PATCH v4 1/2] ARM: PCI: bios32: replace panic with WARN messages on failures

Jingoo Han jingoohan1 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 29 23:45:42 PDT 2015


On 2015. 7. 29., at PM 8:33, Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com> wrote:
> 
> 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>
> Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas at google.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>

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 fcbbbb1..a5c782c 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;
> 
> -- 
> 2.2.1
> 



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