skiboot 5.4.10 release notesskiboot-5.4.10

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

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+.. _skiboot-5.4.10:
+
+==============
+skiboot-5.4.10
+==============
+
+skiboot-5.4.10 was released on Monday May 28th, 2018. It replaces
+:ref:`skiboot-5.4.9` as the current stable release in the 5.4.x series.
+
+Over :ref:`skiboot-5.4.9`, we have a few bug fixes:
+
+- opal-prd: Do not error out on first failure for soft/hard offline.
+
+  The memory errors (CEs and UEs) that are detected as part of background
+  memory scrubbing are reported by PRD asynchronously to opal-prd along with
+  affected memory ranges. hservice_memory_error() converts these ranges into
+  page granularity before hooking up them to soft/hard offline-ing
+  infrastructure.
+
+  But the current implementation of hservice_memory_error() does not hookup
+  all the pages to soft/hard offline-ing if any of the page offline action
+  fails. e.g hard offline can fail for:
+
+  - Pages that are not part of buddy managed pool.
+  - Pages that are reserved by kernel using memblock_reserved()
+  - Pages that are in use by kernel.
+
+  But for the pages that are in use by user space application, the hard
+  offline marks the page as hwpoison, sends SIGBUS signal to kill the
+  affected application as recovery action and returns success.
+
+  Hence, It is possible that some of the pages in that memory range are in
+  use by application or free. By stopping on first error we loose the
+  opportunity to hwpoison the subsequent pages which may be free or in use by
+  application. This patch fixes this issue.
+- OPAL_PCI_SET_POWER_STATE: fix locking in error paths
+
+  Otherwise we could exit OPAL holding locks, potentially leading
+  to all sorts of problems later on.
+- p8-i2c: Limit number of retry attempts
+
+  Current we will attempt to start an I2C transaction until it succeeds.
+  In the event that the OCC does not release the lock on an I2C bus this
+  results in an async token being held forever and the kernel thread that
+  started the transaction will block forever while waiting for an async
+  completion message. Fix this by limiting the number of attempts to
+  start the transaction.
+- FSP/CONSOLE: Disable notification on unresponsive consoles
+
+  Commit fd6b71fc fixed the situation where ipmi console was open (hvc0) but got
+  data on different console (hvc1).
+
+  During FSP R/R OPAL closes all consoles. After R/R complete FSP requests to
+  open hvc1 and sends data on this. If hvc1 registration failed or not opened in
+  host kernel then it will not read data and results in RCU stalls.
+
+  Note that this is workaround for older kernel where we don't have separate irq
+  for each console. Latest kernel works fine without this patch.