Re: [PATCH 11/21] drivers: base: Print a warning instead of panic() when register_cpu() fails

Jonathan Cameron
2023-11-30T16:53:18Z

On Tue, 21 Nov 2023 13:44:46 +0000
Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> wrote:

> From: James Morse <james.morse@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@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
> Reviewed-by: Shaoqin Huang <shahuang@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>