[PATCH] updates to surveillance for power5

[Mike Strosaker]

Hi, Anton:

>
> Any ideas why they got rid of surveillance on POWER5?
>

Because of the virtualization layer and partitioning, the surveillance
requirement was moved to PHYP<->SP.  Apparently, this was a hotly
contested issue among the platform design folks (especially considering
that partitioned power4 systems still have OS<->SP surveillance).  I
think the logic is: If an OS goes down, its not likely a server problem,
hence no requirement to monitor from the server side.

At least the platform gets notified of panics via os-term.  I gather
that some user space tools are expected to monitor for deadlocks/hangs
(maybe clustering tools).

Thanks,
Mike

Michael Strosaker
IBM Linux Technology Center

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