On Thu, 2018-03-08 at 00:36:06 UTC, 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'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 <bsinghar...@gmail.com> > Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npig...@gmail.com> > Reviewed-by: Stewart Smith <stew...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Applied to powerpc next, thanks. https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/5ee573e8ef034e687c420cb1091137 cheers