Re: [RFC] powerpc/powernv/mce: Don't silently restart the machine

2018-02-20 Thread Balbir Singh
On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 3:54 PM, Stewart Smith wrote: > Balbir Singh 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 ne

Re: [RFC] powerpc/powernv/mce: Don't silently restart the machine

2018-02-20 Thread Stewart Smith
Balbir Singh 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, in

Re: [RFC] powerpc/powernv/mce: Don't silently restart the machine

2018-02-20 Thread Nicholas Piggin
On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 12:01:11 +1100 Balbir Singh wrote: > 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'

[RFC] powerpc/powernv/mce: Don't silently restart the machine

2018-02-20 Thread Balbir Singh
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