[PATCH v1 02/27] powerpc/mm: don't BUG in add_huge_page_size()

Aneesh Kumar K.V aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com
Thu Apr 11 15:41:13 AEST 2019


Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr> writes:

> No reason to BUG() in add_huge_page_size(). Just WARN and
> reject the add.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
> index 9e732bb2c84a..cf2978e235f3 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
> @@ -634,7 +634,8 @@ static int __init add_huge_page_size(unsigned long long size)
>  	}
>  #endif
>  
> -	BUG_ON(mmu_psize_defs[mmu_psize].shift != shift);
> +	if (WARN_ON(mmu_psize_defs[mmu_psize].shift != shift))
> +		return -EINVAL;

Same here. There are not catching runtime errors. We should never find
that true. This is to catch mistakes during development changes. Switch
to VM_BUG_ON?


>  
>  	/* Return if huge page size has already been setup */
>  	if (size_to_hstate(size))
> -- 
> 2.13.3



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