powerpc: Put exception configuration in a common place

The various calls to establish exception endianness and AIL are
now done from a single point using already established CPU and FW
feature bits to decide what to do.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
index 03ff9867a610c..03c732afef345 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
@@ -261,24 +261,8 @@ static void pSeries_lpar_hptab_clear(void)
 	 * This is also called on boot when a fadump happens. In that case we
 	 * must not change the exception endian mode.
 	 */
-	if (firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_SET_MODE) && !is_fadump_active()) {
-		long rc;
-
-		rc = pseries_big_endian_exceptions();
-		/*
-		 * At this point it is unlikely panic() will get anything
-		 * 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 && !kdump_in_progress())
-			panic("Could not enable big endian exceptions");
-	}
+	if (firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_SET_MODE) && !is_fadump_active())
+		pseries_big_endian_exceptions();
 #endif
 }