powerpc/powernv: Call OPAL sync before kexec'ing

Michael Ellerman michael at ellerman.id.au
Thu Jan 16 11:58:23 EST 2014


On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 17:02 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> From: Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>     
> Its possible that OPAL may be writing to host memory during
> kexec (like dump retrieve scenario). In this situation we might
> end up corrupting host memory.

Are we happy with that happening during kdump? (which doesn't call any of the
shutdown paths)

cheers




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