Kernel panic settings

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS LPAR mode z/VM guest KVM guest

Set the attribute /sys/firmware/shutdown_actions/on_panic to reipl to make the system re-IPL with the current re-IPL settings if a kernel panic occurs.

For Linux® in LPAR mode and Linux on z/VM®, you might want to trigger a system dump in response to a kernel panic. See also the description of the dumpconf tool in Using the Dump Tools, SC33-8412 on IBM® Documentation at:

ibm.com/docs/en/linux-on-systems?topic=tools-upstream-kernel