powerpc/powernv/mce: Don't silently restart the machine
authorBalbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Thu, 8 Mar 2018 00:36:06 +0000 (11:36 +1100)
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Tue, 13 Mar 2018 04:50:31 +0000 (15:50 +1100)
commit5ee573e8ef034e687c420cb10911371488d14b10
tree37ddcaea9d6b0e4579bec6579130cb4be859dda1
parent9dbcbfa1fe0c3b556e889ea213a73eb80d74307b
powerpc/powernv/mce: Don't silently restart the machine

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.

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal.c