[PATCH] ia64: panic if topology_init kzalloc fails

[PATCH] ia64: panic if topology_init kzalloc fails

[Paul Jackson]

From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>

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>

---

 arch/ia64/kernel/topology.c |    6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- 2.6.18-rc2-mm1.orig/arch/ia64/kernel/topology.c	2006-07-31 17:18:04.921717318 -0700
+++ 2.6.18-rc2-mm1/arch/ia64/kernel/topology.c	2006-07-31 21:12:08.950508732 -0700
@@ -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)))

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