From ead1dec8ed0497c4a3f7fc36135899e5f26563ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Heiko Carstens Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 13:55:42 +0200 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky --- arch/s390/kernel/ipl.c | 7 +------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/s390') 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); -- cgit v1.2.3