Re: 2.6.23-rc7-mm1 -- powerpc rtas panic

Tony Breeds
2007-10-03T00:26:55Z

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 06:28:19PM -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 01:35:31PM +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> > Seeing the following from an older power LPAR, pretty sure we had
> > this in the previous -mm also:
>
> I haven't forgetten about this ... and am looking at it now.
> Seems that whenever I go to reserve the machine pSeries-102,
> someone else is using it :-)

This panic is caused by "[POWERPC] pseries: Fix jumbled no_logging flag."
(79c0108d1b9db4864ab77b2a95dfa04f2dcf264c), in the powerpc/for-2.6.24
branch. It looks to me that we have logging enabled too early now.

I think the following is a reasonable fix?

---
Explicitly enable RTAS error logging, when it should be ready.

Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>

---

arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/rtasd.c | 7 ++++++-
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/rtasd.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/rtasd.c
index 30925d2..0df5d0d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/rtasd.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/rtasd.c
@@ -54,7 +54,10 @@ static unsigned int rtas_event_scan_rate;
static int full_rtas_msgs = 0;

/* Stop logging to nvram after first fatal error */
-static int no_more_logging;
+static int no_more_logging = 1; /* Until we initialize everything,
+ * make sure we don't try logging
+ * anything */
+

static int error_log_cnt;

@@ -414,6 +417,8 @@ static int rtasd(void *unused)
memset(logdata, 0, rtas_error_log_max);
rc = nvram_read_error_log(logdata, rtas_error_log_max,
&err_type, &error_log_cnt);
+ /* We can use rtas_log_buf now */
+ no_more_logging = 0;

if (!rc) {
if (err_type != ERR_FLAG_ALREADY_LOGGED) {

Yours Tony

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