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authorMichael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>2007-10-22 10:52:43 (GMT)
committerMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>2007-10-22 10:52:48 (GMT)
commite3d3683d1402c1737687cb698451d545f57c32a7 (patch)
treefb1b461928663dbced17738beef0ecf874668d57 /arch/s390
parent7f021ce1957504cacc78896de857b90293badabc (diff)
downloadlinux-e3d3683d1402c1737687cb698451d545f57c32a7.tar.xz
[S390] kernel: Fix dump on panic for DASDs under LPAR.
Currently the ccw method is used to ipl the DASD dump record under LPAR. This mechanism is not reliable, which can cause dump failures. This fix now uses the diag 308 ipl method for all machines, which have diag308 subcode 5 and 4 support. Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/s390')
-rw-r--r--arch/s390/kernel/ipl.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/ipl.c b/arch/s390/kernel/ipl.c
index 66b5190..ce0856d 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/ipl.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/ipl.c
@@ -648,6 +648,8 @@ static int dump_set_type(enum dump_type type)
case DUMP_TYPE_CCW:
if (MACHINE_IS_VM)
dump_method = DUMP_METHOD_CCW_VM;
+ else if (diag308_set_works)
+ dump_method = DUMP_METHOD_CCW_DIAG;
else
dump_method = DUMP_METHOD_CCW_CIO;
break;