Platforms with a panic handler that halts the system can have problems
getting kernel messages out, because the panic notifiers are called
before kernel/panic.c does its flushing of printk buffers an console
etc.
This was attempted to be solved with commit a3b2cb30f252 ("powerpc: Do
not call ppc_m
The die() oops path contains a serializing lock to prevent oops
messages from being interleaved. In the case of a system reset
initiated oops (e.g., qemu nmi command), __die was being called
which lacks that synchronisation and oops reports could be
interleaved across CPUs.
A recent patch 4388c9b3
Here's a couple of fixes that should go into 4.15 and possibly
stable kernels as well. Most of the time when you hit the system
reset button, either you're a developer with xmon enabled or
customer with a crash dumper enabled. But if neither is the case,
then the result is currently pretty useless.
There are several cases outside the normal address space management
where a CPU's entire local TLB is to be flushed:
1. Booting the kernel, in case something has left stale entries in
the TLB (e.g., kexec).
2. Machine check, to clean corrupted TLB entries.
One other place where the TLB
