Balbir Singh <bsinghar...@gmail.com> writes: > 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.
This will likely change again, but I can send a patch that changes the comment (along with the logic of decoding it all and having enough information to make sensible decisions). But... I kind of don't want to bikeshed a comment to death :) I reckon the panic() here is the right thing to do no matter what. Reviewed-by: Stewart Smith <stew...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> -- Stewart Smith OPAL Architect, IBM.
