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-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
index 469751d92004..b5682fd6c984 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
#include <asm/trace.h>
#include <asm/firmware.h>
#include <asm/plpar_wrappers.h>
+#include <asm/kexec.h>
#include <asm/fadump.h>
#include "pseries.h"
@@ -267,8 +268,13 @@ static void pSeries_lpar_hptab_clear(void)
* out to the user, but at least this will stop us from
* continuing on further and creating an even more
* difficult to debug situation.
+ *
+ * There is a known problem when kdump'ing, if cpus are offline
+ * the above call will fail. Rather than panicking again, keep
+ * going and hope the kdump kernel is also little endian, which
+ * it usually is.
*/
- if (rc)
+ if (rc && !kdump_in_progress())
panic("Could not enable big endian exceptions");
}
#endif