From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
To: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com
Cc: luto@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, tglx@kernel.org,
mingo@redhat.com, bp@alien8.de, x86@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
muchun.song@linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86/mm: fix spurious warning on __add_pages() failure
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2026 11:43:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c2988799-ef21-4e06-b3c7-3efa88aca99f@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261001081555.35485-1-lance.yang@linux.dev>
On 10/1/26 10:15, Lance Yang wrote:
> __add_pages() can fail if we run out of memory. The caller already
> handles that, so we shouldn't WARN_ON_ONCE() just because an allocation
> failed.
>
> Let's return the error instead, and only update the end-of-memory
> variables after __add_pages() succeeds.
>
> Fixes: 10f22dde556d ("x86: arch/x86/mm/init_64.c printk fixes")
> Reported-by: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/d4fac8af-fd71-47a2-bfe9-3c6559b92209@kernel.org/
> Suggested-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/203892F4-B04A-4F69-A1B3-DC1619176C67@linux.dev/
> Signed-off-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
> ---
> arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> index 70e682180291a..8b6d86fb5a42e 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> @@ -970,7 +970,8 @@ int add_pages(int nid, unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages,
> return -ERANGE;
>
> ret = __add_pages(nid, start_pfn, nr_pages, params);
> - WARN_ON_ONCE(ret);
> + if (ret)
> + return ret;
>
> /*
> * Special case: add_pages() is called by memremap_pages() for adding device
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
--
Cheers,
David
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-01 9:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-01 8:15 [PATCH 1/1] x86/mm: fix spurious warning on __add_pages() failure Lance Yang
2026-10-01 9:12 ` Muchun Song
2026-10-01 9:43 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
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