add skiboot-5.1.8 release notesskiboot-5.1.8

Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

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+skiboot-5.1.8
+-------------
+
+skiboot-5.1.8 was released on October 19th, 2015.
+
+skiboot-5.1.8 is the 9th stable release of 5.1, it follows skiboot-5.1.7
+(which was released October 13th, 2015).
+
+Skiboot 5.1.8 contains all fixes from skiboot-5.1.7 and is a minor bug
+fix release, with a single fix for recovery from a (rare) error.
+
+Over skiboot-5.1.7, we have the following change:
+
+- opal/hmi: Fix a soft lockup issue on Hypervisor Maintenance Interrupt
+  for certain timebase errors.
+
+  We also introduce a timeout to handle the worst situation where all other
+  threads are badly stuck without setting a cleanup done bit. Under such
+  situation timeout will help to avoid soft lockups and report failure to
+  kernel.