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| author | Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> | 2006-08-15 07:45:49 +0200 |
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| committer | Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> | 2006-08-24 17:29:24 +0200 |
| commit | a813213d73bb29d6986c3e93669a9cd5f7984364 (patch) | |
| tree | eaeb242ce68a6467d6c740d1c62d2f3945e5be25 | |
| parent | [IA64-SGI] Silent data corruption caused by XPC V2. (diff) | |
| download | linux-a813213d73bb29d6986c3e93669a9cd5f7984364.tar.xz linux-a813213d73bb29d6986c3e93669a9cd5f7984364.zip | |
[IA64] panic if topology_init kzalloc fails
There really is no sense trying to continue if the kzalloc of sysfs_cpus[]
fails in ia64 topology_init. The code calling into here doesn't check
errors very well, and one ends up with a nonobvious boot failure that
wastes peoples time debugging.
See for example the lkml thread at:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/3/2/215
Since the system is totally dead when this kzalloc fails, not having yet
even booted, might as well announce one's death boldly and plainly.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/ia64/kernel/topology.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/topology.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/topology.c index d24fa393b182..f648c610b10c 100644 --- a/arch/ia64/kernel/topology.c +++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/topology.c @@ -67,10 +67,8 @@ static int __init topology_init(void) #endif sysfs_cpus = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ia64_cpu) * NR_CPUS, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!sysfs_cpus) { - err = -ENOMEM; - goto out; - } + if (!sysfs_cpus) + panic("kzalloc in topology_init failed - NR_CPUS too big?"); for_each_present_cpu(i) { if((err = arch_register_cpu(i))) |