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authorPaul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>2006-08-14 22:45:49 -0700
committerTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>2006-08-24 08:29:24 -0700
commita813213d73bb29d6986c3e93669a9cd5f7984364 (patch)
treeeaeb242ce68a6467d6c740d1c62d2f3945e5be25 /arch
parent7682a4c624e0011b5f3e8dd3021dc54961260d97 (diff)
[IA64] panic if topology_init kzalloc fails
There really is no sense trying to continue if the kzalloc of sysfs_cpus[] fails in ia64 topology_init. The code calling into here doesn't check errors very well, and one ends up with a nonobvious boot failure that wastes peoples time debugging. See for example the lkml thread at: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/3/2/215 Since the system is totally dead when this kzalloc fails, not having yet even booted, might as well announce one's death boldly and plainly. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/ia64/kernel/topology.c6
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/topology.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/topology.c
index d24fa393b18..f648c610b10 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/topology.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/topology.c
@@ -67,10 +67,8 @@ static int __init topology_init(void)
#endif
sysfs_cpus = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ia64_cpu) * NR_CPUS, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!sysfs_cpus) {
- err = -ENOMEM;
- goto out;
- }
+ if (!sysfs_cpus)
+ panic("kzalloc in topology_init failed - NR_CPUS too big?");
for_each_present_cpu(i) {
if((err = arch_register_cpu(i)))