From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Mike Strosaker <strosake@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Paul Mackeras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] reboot when panic_timout is set
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 22:14:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060825201402.GA28214@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44EF428B.8010100@austin.ibm.com>
On Fri, Aug 25, Mike Strosaker wrote:
> Olaf Hering wrote:
>
> >Only call into RTAS when booted with panic=0 because the RTAS call does
> >not return.
> >The system has to be rebooted via the HMC or via the management console
> >right now.
> >This is cumbersome and not what the default panic=180 is supposed to do.
> >
> >
> The os-term call is supposed to indicate to the platform that it should
> follow it's abnormal OS termination policy. I normally set my
> partitions to reboot immediately after an os-term call. I believe that
> "/usr/sbin/serv_config -b" (installed with powerpc-utils-papr) is used
> to set that policy from the command line.
That doesnt help me at all if the kernel crashes before it reaches
/init. And if one has to call a binary anyway to set or upgrade the
policy, this binary can also set /proc/sys/kernel/panic to 0.
Do I have to set it for each boot, or is a change permanent?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-25 20:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-21 16:11 [PATCH] reboot when panic_timout is set Olaf Hering
2006-08-25 18:33 ` Mike Strosaker
2006-08-25 20:14 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2006-08-30 22:13 ` Mike Strosaker
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