From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754183AbcALXHn (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jan 2016 18:07:43 -0500 Received: from mail-pf0-f174.google.com ([209.85.192.174]:34230 "EHLO mail-pf0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753059AbcALXHk (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jan 2016 18:07:40 -0500 Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 15:07:38 -0800 (PST) From: David Rientjes X-X-Sender: rientjes@chino.kir.corp.google.com To: Vitaly Kuznetsov cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Tang Chen , Naoya Horiguchi , Xishi Qiu , Sheng Yong , Zhu Guihua , Dan Williams , David Vrabel , Igor Mammedov Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] memory-hotplug: don't BUG() in register_memory_resource() In-Reply-To: <1451924251-4189-2-git-send-email-vkuznets@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <1451924251-4189-1-git-send-email-vkuznets@redhat.com> <1451924251-4189-2-git-send-email-vkuznets@redhat.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.10 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 4 Jan 2016, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote: > Out of memory condition is not a bug and while we can't add new memory in > such case crashing the system seems wrong. Propagating the return value > from register_memory_resource() requires interface change. > > Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov > Cc: Andrew Morton > Cc: David Rientjes > Cc: Tang Chen > Cc: Naoya Horiguchi > Cc: Xishi Qiu > Cc: Sheng Yong > Cc: Zhu Guihua > Cc: Dan Williams > Cc: David Vrabel > Cc: Igor Mammedov Acked-by: David Rientjes