[PATCH 0/2] sleeping functions in invalid context on panic fixes

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Tue May 15 01:59:45 AEST 2018


Here's a couple of fixes which seem to solve a problem where
panics can hang forever rather than reboot after 10 seconds. The
symptoms are that a CPU calls panic(), but later it is found in
idle.

Nicholas Piggin (2):
  powerpc/powernv: Fix opal_event_shutdown() called with interrupts
    disabled
  powerpc/powernv: Fix NVRAM sleep in invalid context when crashing

 arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-irqchip.c |  2 +-
 arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-nvram.c   | 14 ++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

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