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authorNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>2017-07-19 16:59:10 +1000
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2017-08-31 14:26:03 +1000
commitb746e3e01e70d23ef53dcde1203ab78a1b7ac514 (patch)
tree689ea32432c7fc82c505ebfa02e2be63051d057d /arch/powerpc/include
parent4388c9b3a6ee7d6afc36c8a0bb5579b1606229b5 (diff)
powerpc/powernv: Flush console before platform error reboot
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 the console flushing from the panic() path before calling firmware to reboot. The downside of this is a little more code to execute before reaching the firmware reboot. However in practice, it's critical to get the Linux console messages output in order to debug a problem. So this is a desirable tradeoff. Note on the implementation: It is difficult to plumb a custom reboot handler into the panic path, because panic does a little bit too much work. For example, it will try to delay with the timebase, but that may be corrupted in some cases resulting in a hang without reaching the platform reboot. Another problem is that panic can invoke the crash dump code which is not what we want in the case of a hardware platform error. Long-term the best solution will be to rework the panic path so it can be suitable for this kind of panic, but for now we just duplicate a bit of the code. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/include')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/include/asm/opal.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/opal.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/opal.h
index 97ff192f5cfb..726c23304a57 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/opal.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/opal.h
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ int64_t opal_tpo_write(uint64_t token, uint32_t year_mon_day,
uint32_t hour_min);
int64_t opal_cec_power_down(uint64_t request);
int64_t opal_cec_reboot(void);
-int64_t opal_cec_reboot2(uint32_t reboot_type, char *diag);
+int64_t opal_cec_reboot2(uint32_t reboot_type, const char *diag);
int64_t opal_read_nvram(uint64_t buffer, uint64_t size, uint64_t offset);
int64_t opal_write_nvram(uint64_t buffer, uint64_t size, uint64_t offset);
int64_t opal_handle_interrupt(uint64_t isn, __be64 *outstanding_event_mask);