[PATCH] powerpc/powernv: Silence SYSPARAM warning on boot

Joel Stanley joel at jms.id.au
Thu Apr 30 13:50:07 AEST 2015


OpenPower BMC machines do not place any sysparams in the device tree, so
at every boot we get a warning:

 [    0.437176] SYSPARAM: Opal sysparam node not found

Remove the warning, and reorder the init so we don't peform allocations
when there is no sysparam node in the device tree.

Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-sysparam.c | 31 +++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-sysparam.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-sysparam.c
index 9d1acf2..2e52b47 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-sysparam.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-sysparam.c
@@ -162,10 +162,20 @@ void __init opal_sys_param_init(void)
 		goto out;
 	}
 
+	/* Some systems do not use sysparams; this is not an error */
+	sysparam = of_find_node_by_path("/ibm,opal/sysparams");
+	if (!sysparam)
+		goto out;
+
+	if (!of_device_is_compatible(sysparam, "ibm,opal-sysparams")) {
+		pr_err("SYSPARAM: Opal sysparam node not compatible\n");
+		goto out_node_put;
+	}
+
 	sysparam_kobj = kobject_create_and_add("sysparams", opal_kobj);
 	if (!sysparam_kobj) {
 		pr_err("SYSPARAM: Failed to create sysparam kobject\n");
-		goto out;
+		goto out_node_put;
 	}
 
 	/* Allocate big enough buffer for any get/set transactions */
@@ -176,30 +186,19 @@ void __init opal_sys_param_init(void)
 		goto out_kobj_put;
 	}
 
-	sysparam = of_find_node_by_path("/ibm,opal/sysparams");
-	if (!sysparam) {
-		pr_err("SYSPARAM: Opal sysparam node not found\n");
-		goto out_param_buf;
-	}
-
-	if (!of_device_is_compatible(sysparam, "ibm,opal-sysparams")) {
-		pr_err("SYSPARAM: Opal sysparam node not compatible\n");
-		goto out_node_put;
-	}
-
 	/* Number of parameters exposed through DT */
 	count = of_property_count_strings(sysparam, "param-name");
 	if (count < 0) {
 		pr_err("SYSPARAM: No string found of property param-name in "
 				"the node %s\n", sysparam->name);
-		goto out_node_put;
+		goto out_param_buf;
 	}
 
 	id = kzalloc(sizeof(*id) * count, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!id) {
 		pr_err("SYSPARAM: Failed to allocate memory to read parameter "
 				"id\n");
-		goto out_node_put;
+		goto out_param_buf;
 	}
 
 	size = kzalloc(sizeof(*size) * count, GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -293,12 +292,12 @@ out_free_size:
 	kfree(size);
 out_free_id:
 	kfree(id);
-out_node_put:
-	of_node_put(sysparam);
 out_param_buf:
 	kfree(param_data_buf);
 out_kobj_put:
 	kobject_put(sysparam_kobj);
+out_node_put:
+	of_node_put(sysparam);
 out:
 	return;
 }
-- 
2.1.4



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