mm: don't panic when links can't be created in sysfs

At boot time, or when doing memory hot-add operations, if the links in
sysfs can't be created, the system is still able to run, so just report
the error in the kernel log rather than BUG_ON and potentially make system
unusable because the callpath can be called with locks held.

Since the number of memory blocks managed could be high, the messages are
rate limited.

As a consequence, link_mem_sections() has no status to report anymore.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <[email protected]>
Cc: Nathan Lynch <[email protected]>
Cc: "Rafael J . Wysocki" <[email protected]>
Cc: Scott Cheloha <[email protected]>
Cc: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/node.h b/include/linux/node.h
index 014ba3ab2efd..8e5a29897936 100644
--- a/include/linux/node.h
+++ b/include/linux/node.h
@@ -99,15 +99,14 @@ extern struct node *node_devices[];
 typedef  void (*node_registration_func_t)(struct node *);
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE) && defined(CONFIG_NUMA)
-int link_mem_sections(int nid, unsigned long start_pfn,
-		      unsigned long end_pfn,
-		      enum meminit_context context);
+void link_mem_sections(int nid, unsigned long start_pfn,
+		       unsigned long end_pfn,
+		       enum meminit_context context);
 #else
-static inline int link_mem_sections(int nid, unsigned long start_pfn,
-				    unsigned long end_pfn,
-				    enum meminit_context context)
+static inline void link_mem_sections(int nid, unsigned long start_pfn,
+				     unsigned long end_pfn,
+				     enum meminit_context context)
 {
-	return 0;
 }
 #endif
 
@@ -130,8 +129,7 @@ static inline int register_one_node(int nid)
 		if (error)
 			return error;
 		/* link memory sections under this node */
-		error = link_mem_sections(nid, start_pfn, end_pfn,
-					  MEMINIT_EARLY);
+		link_mem_sections(nid, start_pfn, end_pfn, MEMINIT_EARLY);
 	}
 
 	return error;