Re: [3/4] powerpc/mm: Clean up memory hotplug failure paths

[Michael Ellerman]

On Tue, 2016-09-02 at 03:32:42 UTC, David Gibson wrote:
> This makes a number of cleanups to handling of mapping failures during
> memory hotplug on Power:
> 
> For errors creating the linear mapping for the hot-added region:
>   * This is now reported with EFAULT which is more appropriate than the
>     previous EINVAL (the failure is unlikely to be related to the
>     function's parameters)
>   * An error in this path now prints a warning message, rather than just
>     silently failing to add the extra memory.
>   * Previously a failure here could result in the region being partially
>     mapped.  We now clean up any partial mapping before failing.
> 
> For errors creating the vmemmap for the hot-added region:
>    * This is now reported with EFAULT instead of causing a BUG() - this
>      could happen for external reason (e.g. full hash table) so it's better
>      to handle this non-fatally
>    * An error message is also printed, so the failure won't be silent
>    * As above a failure could cause a partially mapped region, we now
>      clean this up.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/1dace6c665ec59bdc4eeafa4db

cheers