Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] mm: don't panic when links can't be created in sysfs

2020-09-15 Thread Oscar Salvador
On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 11:41:43AM +0200, Laurent Dufour wrote: > At boot time, or when doing memory hot-add operations, if the links in > sysfs can't be created, the system is still able to run, so just report the > error in the kernel log rather than BUG_ON and potentially make system > unusable

[PATCH v3 3/3] mm: don't panic when links can't be created in sysfs

2020-09-15 Thread Laurent Dufour
At boot time, or when doing memory hot-add operations, if the links in sysfs can't be created, the system is still able to run, so just report the error in the kernel log rather than BUG_ON and potentially make system unusable because the callpath can be called with locks held. Since the number of