linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH v2 05/35] drivers: base: Print a warning instead of panic() when register

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Message-Id: <20230913163823.7880-6-james.morse@arm.com>
Date:   Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:37:53 +0000
From:   James Morse <james.morse@....com>
To:     linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, loongarch@...ts.linux.dev,
        linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, kvmarm@...ts.linux.dev
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@...wei.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@...aro.org>,
        jianyong.wu@....com, justin.he@....com
Subject: [RFC PATCH v2 05/35] drivers: base: Print a warning instead of panic() when register_cpu() fails

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@....com>
---
 drivers/base/cpu.c | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/cpu.c b/drivers/base/cpu.c
index 579064fda97b..d31c936f0955 100644
--- a/drivers/base/cpu.c
+++ b/drivers/base/cpu.c
@@ -535,14 +535,15 @@ int __weak arch_register_cpu(int cpu)
 
 static void __init cpu_dev_register_generic(void)
 {
-	int i;
+	int i, ret;
 
 	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES))
 		return;
 
 	for_each_present_cpu(i) {
-		if (arch_register_cpu(i))
-			panic("Failed to register CPU device");
+		ret = arch_register_cpu(i);
+		if (ret)
+			pr_warn("register_cpu %d failed (%d)\n", i, ret);
 	}
 }
 
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