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| author | Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> | 2017-06-06 13:55:42 +0200 |
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| committer | Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> | 2017-06-14 15:35:31 +0200 |
| commit | 4130b28f568688f79539b732797a1dc04b048442 (patch) | |
| tree | 936833b7bc3778f1c3496febace6fef250de5c57 /arch/s390 | |
| parent | 63f700aab4c11d46626de3cd051dae56cf7e9056 (diff) | |
s390/ipl: revert Load Normal semantics for LPAR CCW-type re-IPL
This reverts the two commits
7afbeb6df2aa ("s390/ipl: always use load normal for CCW-type re-IPL")
0f7451ff3ab8 ("s390/ipl: use load normal for LPAR re-ipl")
The two commits did not take into account that behavior of standby
memory changes fundamentally if the re-IPL method is changed from
Load Clear to Load Normal.
In case of the old re-IPL clear method all memory that was initially
in standby state will be put into standby state again within the
re-IPL process. Or in other words: memory that was brought online
before a re-IPL will be offline again after a reboot.
Given that we use different re-IPL methods depending on the hypervisor
and CCW-type vs SCSI re-IPL it is not easy to tell in advance when and
why memory will stay online or will be offline after a re-IPL.
This does also have other side effects, since memory that is online
from the beginning will be in ZONE_NORMAL by default vs ZONE_MOVABLE
for memory that is offline.
Therefore, before the change, a user could online and offline memory
easily since standby memory was always in ZONE_NORMAL. After the
change, and a re-IPL, this depended on which memory parts were online
before the re-IPL.
From a usability point of view the current behavior is more than
suboptimal. Therefore revert these changes until we have a better
solution and get back to a consistent behavior. The bad thing about
this is that the time required for a re-IPL will be significantly
increased for configurations with several 100GB or 1TB of memory.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/s390')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/s390/kernel/ipl.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/ipl.c b/arch/s390/kernel/ipl.c index e545ffe5155a..8e622bb52f7a 100644 --- a/arch/s390/kernel/ipl.c +++ b/arch/s390/kernel/ipl.c @@ -564,8 +564,6 @@ static struct kset *ipl_kset; static void __ipl_run(void *unused) { - if (MACHINE_IS_LPAR && ipl_info.type == IPL_TYPE_CCW) - diag308(DIAG308_LOAD_NORMAL_DUMP, NULL); diag308(DIAG308_LOAD_CLEAR, NULL); if (MACHINE_IS_VM) __cpcmd("IPL", NULL, 0, NULL); @@ -1088,10 +1086,7 @@ static void __reipl_run(void *unused) break; case REIPL_METHOD_CCW_DIAG: diag308(DIAG308_SET, reipl_block_ccw); - if (MACHINE_IS_LPAR) - diag308(DIAG308_LOAD_NORMAL_DUMP, NULL); - else - diag308(DIAG308_LOAD_CLEAR, NULL); + diag308(DIAG308_LOAD_CLEAR, NULL); break; case REIPL_METHOD_FCP_RW_DIAG: diag308(DIAG308_SET, reipl_block_fcp); |