linux-kernel - [PATCH] x86: OLPC: have prom_early_alloc BUG rather than return NULL

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Message-ID: <20110224200631.0007833e@queued.net>
Date:	Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:06:31 -0800
From:	Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ued.net>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: [PATCH] x86: OLPC: have prom_early_alloc BUG rather than return
 NULL


..similar to what sparc's prom_early_alloc does.

Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ued.net>
---
 arch/x86/platform/olpc/olpc_dt.c |    3 +--
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/olpc/olpc_dt.c b/arch/x86/platform/olpc/olpc_dt.c
index dab8746..044bda5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/olpc/olpc_dt.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/olpc/olpc_dt.c
@@ -140,8 +140,7 @@ void * __init prom_early_alloc(unsigned long size)
 		 * wasted bootmem) and hand off chunks of it to callers.
 		 */
 		res = alloc_bootmem(chunk_size);
-		if (!res)
-			return NULL;
+		BUG_ON(!res);
 		prom_early_allocated += chunk_size;
 		memset(res, 0, chunk_size);
 		free_mem = chunk_size;
-- 
1.7.2.3

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