Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] powerpc/powernv: handle the platform error reboot in ppc_md.restart

2017-07-19 Thread Mahesh Jagannath Salgaonkar
On 07/19/2017 12:29 PM, Nicholas Piggin wrote: > Unrecovered MCE and HMI errors are sent through a special restart OPAL > call to log the platform error. The downside is that they don't go > through normal Linux crash paths, so they don't give much information > to the Linux console. > > Change th

Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] powerpc/powernv: handle the platform error reboot in ppc_md.restart

2017-07-19 Thread Nicholas Piggin
On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 16:59:10 +1000 Nicholas Piggin wrote: > Change this by providing a special crash function which does some of > the console flushing from the panic() path before calling firmware to > reboot. Oops, I changed the changelog but not the patch subject. Should be something like "fl

[PATCH v2 1/3] powerpc/powernv: handle the platform error reboot in ppc_md.restart

2017-07-19 Thread Nicholas Piggin
Unrecovered MCE and HMI errors are sent through a special restart OPAL call to log the platform error. The downside is that they don't go through normal Linux crash paths, so they don't give much information to the Linux console. Change this by providing a special crash function which does some of