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From: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au, npiggin@gmail.com,
	Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Subject: powerpc/powernv/mce: Don't silently restart the machine
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:06:36 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180228010636.22772-1-bsingharora@gmail.com> (raw)

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>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal.c
index 69b5263fc9e3..b510a6f41b00 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal.c
@@ -500,9 +500,12 @@ void pnv_platform_error_reboot(struct pt_regs *regs, const char *msg)
 	 *    opal to trigger checkstop explicitly for error analysis.
 	 *    The FSP PRD component would have already got notified
 	 *    about this error through other channels.
+	 * 4. We are running on a newer skiboot that by default does
+	 *    not cause a checkstop, drops us back to the kernel to
+	 *    extract context and state at the time of the error.
 	 */
 
-	ppc_md.restart(NULL);
+	panic("PowerNV Unrecovered Machine Check");
 }
 
 int opal_machine_check(struct pt_regs *regs)
-- 
2.13.6

             reply	other threads:[~2018-02-28  1:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-28  1:06 Balbir Singh [this message]
2018-02-28  9:49 ` powerpc/powernv/mce: Don't silently restart the machine Michael Ellerman
2018-02-28 10:50   ` Balbir Singh
2018-03-08  0:36 [PATCH] " Balbir Singh
2018-03-14  9:28 ` Michael Ellerman

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