Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Sep 2020 12:33:27 +0200 | From | Oscar Salvador <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] mm: don't panic when links can't be created in sysfs |
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On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 11:41:43AM +0200, Laurent Dufour wrote: > At boot time, or when doing memory hot-add operations, if the links in > sysfs can't be created, the system is still able to run, so just report the > error in the kernel log rather than BUG_ON and potentially make system > unusable because the callpath can be called with locks held. > > Since the number of memory blocks managed could be high, the messages are > rate limited. > > As a consequence, link_mem_sections() has no status to report anymore. > > Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> > Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> > Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
-- Oscar Salvador SUSE L3
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