[3/4] powerpc/mm: Clean up memory hotplug failure paths
Michael Ellerman
mpe at ellerman.id.au
Wed Mar 2 09:21:19 AEDT 2016
On Tue, 2016-09-02 at 03:32:42 UTC, David Gibson wrote:
> This makes a number of cleanups to handling of mapping failures during
> memory hotplug on Power:
>
> For errors creating the linear mapping for the hot-added region:
> * This is now reported with EFAULT which is more appropriate than the
> previous EINVAL (the failure is unlikely to be related to the
> function's parameters)
> * An error in this path now prints a warning message, rather than just
> silently failing to add the extra memory.
> * Previously a failure here could result in the region being partially
> mapped. We now clean up any partial mapping before failing.
>
> For errors creating the vmemmap for the hot-added region:
> * This is now reported with EFAULT instead of causing a BUG() - this
> could happen for external reason (e.g. full hash table) so it's better
> to handle this non-fatally
> * An error message is also printed, so the failure won't be silent
> * As above a failure could cause a partially mapped region, we now
> clean this up.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> Reviewed-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
> Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Applied to powerpc next, thanks.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/1dace6c665ec59bdc4eeafa4db
cheers
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