[Skiboot] [PATCH] core/platform: Fallback to full_reboot if fast-reboot fails

Vasant Hegde hegdevasant at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Nov 27 22:58:20 AEDT 2020


On 11/24/20 12:46 PM, Vasant Hegde wrote:
> If fast reboot fails then we return to Linux with OPAL_SUCCESS.
> Current Linux code thinks that request succedded and enters
> infinite loop (see Linux pnv_restart() code).
> 
> This patch fixes above issue by return OPAL_UNSUPPORTED if fast
> reboot fails.
> 
> Alternatively we can directly all full_reboot() itself. But I
> think it makes sense to go back to Linux and report the failure.
> And Linux falls back to normal reboot request.
> 

Merged as 8256da31.

-Vasant


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