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authorHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>2017-06-06 13:55:42 +0200
committerMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>2017-06-14 15:35:31 +0200
commit4130b28f568688f79539b732797a1dc04b048442 (patch)
tree936833b7bc3778f1c3496febace6fef250de5c57 /arch/s390
parent63f700aab4c11d46626de3cd051dae56cf7e9056 (diff)
s390/ipl: revert Load Normal semantics for LPAR CCW-type re-IPL
This reverts the two commits 7afbeb6df2aa ("s390/ipl: always use load normal for CCW-type re-IPL") 0f7451ff3ab8 ("s390/ipl: use load normal for LPAR re-ipl") The two commits did not take into account that behavior of standby memory changes fundamentally if the re-IPL method is changed from Load Clear to Load Normal. In case of the old re-IPL clear method all memory that was initially in standby state will be put into standby state again within the re-IPL process. Or in other words: memory that was brought online before a re-IPL will be offline again after a reboot. Given that we use different re-IPL methods depending on the hypervisor and CCW-type vs SCSI re-IPL it is not easy to tell in advance when and why memory will stay online or will be offline after a re-IPL. This does also have other side effects, since memory that is online from the beginning will be in ZONE_NORMAL by default vs ZONE_MOVABLE for memory that is offline. Therefore, before the change, a user could online and offline memory easily since standby memory was always in ZONE_NORMAL. After the change, and a re-IPL, this depended on which memory parts were online before the re-IPL. From a usability point of view the current behavior is more than suboptimal. Therefore revert these changes until we have a better solution and get back to a consistent behavior. The bad thing about this is that the time required for a re-IPL will be significantly increased for configurations with several 100GB or 1TB of memory. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/s390')
-rw-r--r--arch/s390/kernel/ipl.c7
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/ipl.c b/arch/s390/kernel/ipl.c
index e545ffe5155a..8e622bb52f7a 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/ipl.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/ipl.c
@@ -564,8 +564,6 @@ static struct kset *ipl_kset;
static void __ipl_run(void *unused)
{
- if (MACHINE_IS_LPAR && ipl_info.type == IPL_TYPE_CCW)
- diag308(DIAG308_LOAD_NORMAL_DUMP, NULL);
diag308(DIAG308_LOAD_CLEAR, NULL);
if (MACHINE_IS_VM)
__cpcmd("IPL", NULL, 0, NULL);
@@ -1088,10 +1086,7 @@ static void __reipl_run(void *unused)
break;
case REIPL_METHOD_CCW_DIAG:
diag308(DIAG308_SET, reipl_block_ccw);
- if (MACHINE_IS_LPAR)
- diag308(DIAG308_LOAD_NORMAL_DUMP, NULL);
- else
- diag308(DIAG308_LOAD_CLEAR, NULL);
+ diag308(DIAG308_LOAD_CLEAR, NULL);
break;
case REIPL_METHOD_FCP_RW_DIAG:
diag308(DIAG308_SET, reipl_block_fcp);