** Changed in: makedumpfile (Ubuntu) Status: New => In Progress ** Changed in: makedumpfile (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: makedumpfile (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo (cascardo) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to makedumpfile in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1736954 Title: ppc64el: Do not call ibm,os-term on panic Status in makedumpfile package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: When panic_timeout is set, the user would expect that the system would reboot after some timeout after a panic. However, on powerpc architecture, a panic notifier may not ever return and even shutdown the system. The main example that impacts platforms we support is pseries calling RTAS ibm,os-term. That panic notifier and calling RTAS ibm,os-term is useful for fadump, so this should not be impacted. The Linux code has changed back and forth on considering the panic_timeout setting and checking whether ibm,extended-os-term was available. Unfortunately, recent changes on qemu led to the guest being shut down when calling ibm,os-term even when ibm,extended-os- term was available. Luckily, upstream Linux already has the change that does not call ibm ,os-term on panic, but only during fadump. So, we can use that commit for fixing this. Changing qemu itself is harder as: 1) qemu community already decided some qemu settings should override PAPR; 2) updating deployed hypervisor is harder than updating our guest kernels. Cascardo. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/makedumpfile/+bug/1736954/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp