From: Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@ellerman•id.au>
To: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail•com>, linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org
Cc: npiggin@gmail•com
Subject: Re: powerpc/powernv/mce: Don't silently restart the machine
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 20:28:45 +1100 (AEDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <401RHR65YBz9sVj@ozlabs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180308003606.10721-1-bsingharora@gmail.com>
On Thu, 2018-03-08 at 00:36:06 UTC, Balbir Singh wrote:
> On MCE the current code will restart the machine with
> ppc_md.restart(). This case was extremely unlikely since
> prior to that a skiboot call is made and that resulted in
> a checkstop for analysis.
>
> With newer skiboots, on P9 we don't checkstop the box by
> default, instead we return back to the kernel to extract
> useful information at the time of the MCE. While we still
> get this information, this patch converts the restart to
> a panic(), so that if configured a dump can be taken and
> we can track and probably debug the potential issue causing
> the MCE.
>
> Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail•com>
> Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail•com>
> Reviewed-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux•vnet.ibm.com>
Applied to powerpc next, thanks.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/5ee573e8ef034e687c420cb1091137
cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-14 9:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-08 0:36 [PATCH] powerpc/powernv/mce: Don't silently restart the machine Balbir Singh
2018-03-08 1:20 ` Stewart Smith
2018-03-08 9:33 ` Balbir Singh
2018-03-14 9:28 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
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2018-02-28 1:06 Balbir Singh
2018-02-28 9:49 ` Michael Ellerman
2018-02-28 10:50 ` Balbir Singh
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