[Skiboot] skiboot-5.1.8 tagged & released!
Stewart Smith
stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Oct 19 13:31:11 AEDT 2015
Hi all,
I just tagged skiboot-5.1.8 - which just contains one fix for a soft
lockup for a timebase error from Mahesh.
Release notes below:
skiboot-5.1.8
-------------
skiboot-5.1.8 was released on October 19th, 2015.
skiboot-5.1.8 is the 9th stable release of 5.1, it follows skiboot-5.1.7
(which was released October 13th, 2015).
Skiboot 5.1.8 contains all fixes from skiboot-5.1.7 and is a minor bug
fix release, with a single fix for recovery from a (rare) error.
Over skiboot-5.1.7, we have the following change:
- opal/hmi: Fix a soft lockup issue on Hypervisor Maintenance Interrupt
for certain timebase errors.
We also introduce a timeout to handle the worst situation where all other
threads are badly stuck without setting a cleanup done bit. Under such
situation timeout will help to avoid soft lockups and report failure to
kernel.
More information about the Skiboot
mailing list