ACK: [SRU][Artful][PATCH 0/1] powerpc/powernv: Flush console before platform error reboot

[Khaled Elmously]

On 2018-02-05 15:40:55 , Joseph Salisbury wrote:
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1735159
> 
> == SRU Justification ==
> IBM unrecovered MCE and HMI errors are sent through a special restart OPAL
> call to log the platform error. The downside is that they don't go
> through normal Linux crash paths, so they don't give much information
> to the Linux console.
> 
> IBM is requesting to have the commit b746e3e01e70d23ef53dcde1203ab78a1b7ac514
> in the Artful kernel.
> 
> Commit b746e3e01e70d2 is in mainline as of 4.14-rc1.
> 
> This commit was also previously requested in Zesty, but Zesty is now
> EOL.
> 
> == Fix ==
> commit b746e3e01e70d23ef53dcde1203ab78a1b7ac514
> Author: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
> Date:   Wed Jul 19 16:59:10 2017 +1000
> 
>     powerpc/powernv: Flush console before platform error reboot
> 
> == Regression Potential ==
> This patch is specific to powerpc.  It has been reviewed and 
> tested by IBM.
> 
> == Test Case ==
> A test kernel was built with this patch and tested by the original bug reporter.
> The bug reporter states the test kernel resolved the bug.
> 
> 
> Nicholas Piggin (1):
>   powerpc/powernv: Flush console before platform error reboot
> 
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/opal.h           |  2 +-
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-hmi.c | 22 ++------
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal.c     | 89 ++++++++++++++++++-------------
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/powernv.h  |  2 +
>  4 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)
> 
Acked-by: Khalid Elmously <khalid.elmously at canonical.com>