linux-kernel - Re: powerpc/pseries: Don't give a warning when HPT resizing isn't available

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Date:   Mon, 22 Jan 2018 14:34:05 +1100 (AEDT)
From:   Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@...erman.id.au>
To:     David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>
Cc:     linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, paulus@...ba.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: powerpc/pseries: Don't give a warning when HPT resizing isn't available

On Fri, 2017-03-17 at 01:11:19 UTC, David Gibson wrote:
> As of 438cc81a41 "powerpc/pseries: Automatically resize HPT for memory hot
> add/remove" when running on the pseries platform, we always attempt to
> use the PAPR extension to resize the hashed page table (HPT) when we add
> or remove memory.
> 
> This is fine, but when the extension is available we'll give a harmless,
> but scary warning.  This patch suppresses the warning in this case.  It
> will still warn if the feature is supposed to be available, but didn't
> work.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/7339390d772ddee0447886d72c3aeb

cheers