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Laurent Dufour authored
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: default avatarLaurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarOscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Scott Cheloha <cheloha@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200915094143.79181-4-ldufour@linux.ibm.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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