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-rw-r--r--kernel/rcu/update.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/update.c b/kernel/rcu/update.c
index f203b94f6b5b..cb26de25658a 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/update.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/update.c
@@ -822,7 +822,8 @@ static int __init rcu_spawn_tasks_kthread(void)
struct task_struct *t;
t = kthread_run(rcu_tasks_kthread, NULL, "rcu_tasks_kthread");
- BUG_ON(IS_ERR(t));
+ if (WARN_ONCE(IS_ERR(t), "%s: Could not start Tasks-RCU grace-period kthread, OOM is now expected behavior\n", __func__))
+ return 0;
smp_mb(); /* Ensure others see full kthread. */
WRITE_ONCE(rcu_tasks_kthread_ptr, t);
return 0;
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