powerpc/powernv: Invoke opal_cec_reboot2() on unrecoverable machine check errors.
On non-recoverable MCE errors in kernel space, Linux kernel panics and system reboots. On BMC based system opal-prd runs as a daemon in the host. Hence, kernel crash may prevent opal-prd to detect and analyze this MCE error. This may land us in a situation where the faulty memory never gets de-configured and Linux would keep hitting same MCE error again and again. If this happens in early stage of kernel initialization, then Linux will keep crashing and rebooting in a loop. This patch fixes this issue by invoking new opal_cec_reboot2() call with reboot type OPAL_REBOOT_PLATFORM_ERROR to inform BMC/OCC about this error, so that BMC can collect relevant data for error analysis and decide what component to de-configure before rebooting. This patch is dependent on OPAL patchset posted on skiboot mailing list at https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/skiboot/2015-July/001771.html that introduces opal_cec_reboot2() opal call. Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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