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authorAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>2006-10-04 02:17:05 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-10-04 07:55:30 -0700
commite6a92013ba458804161c0c5b6d134d82204dc233 (patch)
treeecee5fdcef80d1dba0ac6ea87370931ea39ffecd /kernel/sys.c
parenteabc069401bcf45bcc3f19e643017bf761780aa8 (diff)
downloadlinux-e6a92013ba458804161c0c5b6d134d82204dc233.tar.bz2
[PATCH] SRCU: report out-of-memory errors
Currently the init_srcu_struct() routine has no way to report out-of-memory errors. This patch (as761) makes it return -ENOMEM when the per-cpu data allocation fails. The patch also makes srcu_init_notifier_head() report a BUG if a notifier head can't be initialized. Perhaps it should return -ENOMEM instead, but in the most likely cases where this might occur I don't think any recovery is possible. Notifier chains generally are not created dynamically. [akpm@osdl.org: avoid statement-with-side-effect in macro] Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sys.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sys.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index fd5c71006775..98489d82801b 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -517,7 +517,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(srcu_notifier_call_chain);
void srcu_init_notifier_head(struct srcu_notifier_head *nh)
{
mutex_init(&nh->mutex);
- init_srcu_struct(&nh->srcu);
+ if (init_srcu_struct(&nh->srcu) < 0)
+ BUG();
nh->head = NULL;
}