| Message ID | 20130926211719.7b99740a@kryten (mailing list archive) |
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| State | Superseded |
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On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 09:17:19PM +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote: > > We made this change to pseries in 2011 and I think it makes > sense to do the same on powernv. I'd vote we set it to 10s for all 64-bit machines in arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c. cheers
On Tue, 2013-10-01 at 18:39 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 09:17:19PM +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote: > > > > We made this change to pseries in 2011 and I think it makes > > sense to do the same on powernv. > > I'd vote we set it to 10s for all 64-bit machines in > arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c. Why is 64-bit relevant? And wouldn't such a short delay be a problem if the crash is displayed on a monitor? -Scott
> > > We made this change to pseries in 2011 and I think it makes > > > sense to do the same on powernv. > > > > I'd vote we set it to 10s for all 64-bit machines in > > arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c. > > Why is 64-bit relevant? And wouldn't such a short delay be a problem > if the crash is displayed on a monitor? That is why we made it pseries specific in the past. Almost all our boxes are on a virtual console and the 3 minutes of pausing just hurt our uptimes. If other platform maintainers prefer to keep the 3 minute pause, then we just change the PowerNV platform. Anton
Index: b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c =================================================================== --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c @@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ static void __init pnv_setup_arch(void) { + panic_timeout = 10; + /* Initialize SMP */ pnv_smp_init();
We made this change to pseries in 2011 and I think it makes sense to do the same on powernv. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> ---