Re: [PATCH] platform/chrome: cros_ec: trigger kernel_restart on EC_HOST_EVENT_PANIC

[Tzung-Bi Shih]

On Thu, Oct 08, 2026 at 10:22:08AM -0700, Scott Collyer wrote:
> When an attached EC or ISH device reports an EC_HOST_EVENT_PANIC host
> event, the EC/ISH subsystem has encountered a fatal exception.
> 
> Handle the EC_HOST_EVENT_PANIC event by:
> 1. Logging an emergency message (dev_emerg) with the device name.
> 2. Calling the panic notifier chain (panic_notifier).
> 3. Emitting a uevent (ERROR=PANIC) to userspace.
> 4. Triggering kernel_restart("CrOS EC Panic") to cleanly restart the AP
>    so that panic logs are preserved and collected by crash reporting
>    services across reboot.

If the EC crashed, wouldn't the AP be reset anyway?