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

Russell King (Oracle) rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk
Tue Nov 7 02:30:20 PST 2023


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(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/cpu.c b/drivers/base/cpu.c
index 221ffbeb1c9b..82b6a76125f5 100644
--- a/drivers/base/cpu.c
+++ b/drivers/base/cpu.c
@@ -551,14 +551,15 @@ void __weak arch_unregister_cpu(int num)
 
 static void __init cpu_dev_register_generic(void)
 {
-	int i;
+	int i, ret;
 
 	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES))
 		return;
 
 	for_each_present_cpu(i) {
-		if (arch_register_cpu(i))
-			panic("Failed to register CPU device");
+		ret = arch_register_cpu(i);
+		if (ret)
+			pr_warn("register_cpu %d failed (%d)\n", i, ret);
 	}
 }
 
-- 
2.30.2




More information about the linux-arm-kernel mailing list