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authorVasant Hegde <hegdevasant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2014-01-15 17:02:04 +1100
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2014-01-15 17:21:18 +1100
commitf7d98d18a01ece2863984d4fb5ae949b18b02715 (patch)
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powerpc/powernv: Call OPAL sync before kexec'ing
Its possible that OPAL may be writing to host memory during kexec (like dump retrieve scenario). In this situation we might end up corrupting host memory. This patch makes OPAL sync call to make sure OPAL stops writing to host memory before kexec'ing. Signed-off-by: Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c
index 19884b2..a932feb 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c
@@ -145,8 +145,10 @@ static void pnv_shutdown(void)
/* Let the PCI code clear up IODA tables */
pnv_pci_shutdown();
- /* And unregister all OPAL interrupts so they don't fire
- * up while we kexec
+ /*
+ * Stop OPAL activity: Unregister all OPAL interrupts so they
+ * don't fire up while we kexec and make sure all potentially
+ * DMA'ing ops are complete (such as dump retrieval).
*/
opal_shutdown();
}
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