linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: powerpc le qemu boot failure after merge of the akpm tree

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Date:   Thu, 31 Jan 2019 19:35:37 +1100
From:   Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:     Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        PowerPC <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: powerpc le qemu boot failure after merge of the
 akpm tree

Hi Mike,

On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 09:40:18 +0200 Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Andrew, can you please add the below patch to as a fixup to "treewide: add
> checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*()"?

I have added that to linux-next for tomorrow (in case Andrew doesn't
get to it).

> From 854f54b9d4fe52f477765b905a4b2c421d30f46e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>
> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 09:18:50 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] mm/sparse: don't panic if the allocation in
>  sparse_buffer_init fails

Thanks all for the quick resolution.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

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