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authorMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>2006-01-25 21:31:28 +1300
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2006-02-07 22:38:34 +1100
commitd7a5b2ffa1352f0310630934a56aecbdfb617b72 (patch)
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[PATCH] powerpc: Always panic if lmb_alloc() fails
Currently most callers of lmb_alloc() don't check if it worked or not, if it ever does weird bad things will probably happen. The few callers who do check just panic or BUG_ON. So make lmb_alloc() panic internally, to catch bugs at the source. The few callers who did check the result no longer need to. The only caller that did anything interesting with the return result was careful_allocation(). For it we create __lmb_alloc_base() which _doesn't_ panic automatically, a little messy, but passable. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c4
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
index 294832a7e0a6..82d117c60d7f 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
@@ -831,10 +831,6 @@ void __init unflatten_device_tree(void)
/* Allocate memory for the expanded device tree */
mem = lmb_alloc(size + 4, __alignof__(struct device_node));
- if (!mem) {
- DBG("Couldn't allocate memory with lmb_alloc()!\n");
- panic("Couldn't allocate memory with lmb_alloc()!\n");
- }
mem = (unsigned long) __va(mem);
((u32 *)mem)[size / 4] = 0xdeadbeef;