[RFCv2 2/9] arch/powerpc: Clean up error handling for htab_remove_mapping

Paul Mackerras paulus at ozlabs.org
Mon Feb 8 13:48:32 AEDT 2016


On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 04:23:56PM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> Currently, the only error that htab_remove_mapping() can report is -EINVAL,
> if removal of bolted HPTEs isn't implemeted for this platform.  We make
> a few clean ups to the handling of this:
> 
>  * EINVAL isn't really the right code - there's nothing wrong with the
>    function's arguments - use ENODEV instead
>  * We were also printing a warning message, but that's a decision better
>    left up to the callers, so remove it
>  * One caller is vmemmap_remove_mapping(), which will just BUG_ON() on
>    error, making the warning message irrelevant, so no change is needed
>    there.
>  * The other caller is remove_section_mapping().  This is called in the
>    memory hot remove path at a point after vmemmap_remove_mapping() so
>    if hpte_removebolted isn't implemented, we'd expect to have already
>    BUG()ed anyway.  Put a WARN_ON() here, in lieu of a printk() since this
>    really shouldn't be happening.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au>

Reviewed-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>


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