powerpc/pseries: add definitions for new H_SIGNAL_SYS_RESET hcall
Michael Ellerman
patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Sat Dec 3 22:28:15 AEDT 2016
On Tue, 2016-11-08 at 06:08:06 UTC, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> This has not made its way to a PAPR release yet, but we have an hcall
> number assigned.
>
> H_SIGNAL_SYS_RESET = 0x380
>
> Syntax:
> hcall(uint64 H_SIGNAL_SYS_RESET, /* generate a system reset NMI on */
> /* the threads indicated by target */
> int64 target); /* thread target selection */
> /* -1 = target all online threads including the caller */
> /* -2 = target all online threads except for the caller */
> /* All other negative values: reserved */
> /* Positive values: The thread to be targeted, */
> /* obtained from the value of the "ibm,ppc-interrupt-server#s" */
> /* property of the CPU in the OF device tree */
>
> Semantics:
> - If the NMI handlers are not registered, terminate the partition.
> - Invalid target: return H_Parameter.
> - Otherwise: Generate a system reset NMI on target thread(s),
> return H_Success.
>
> This will be used by crash/debug code to get stuck CPUs into a known state.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
Applied to powerpc next, thanks.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/53ce299615e587e900548eb6b384c3
cheers
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