[19.04 FEAT] qeth: Enhanced link speed - kernel part

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2019-02-07 04:29 EDT-------
This function need also be applied to Cosmic and Bionic.
Important for Bionic LTS kernel in support of this new OSA card....

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2019-02-18 03:57 EDT-------
Complete list of Git-Commits: kernel 4.20
- 774afb8e90685d6a12afa35d13a57113d7edebb4
- 993e19c0aeaaf4ad21e93a09110a782f4ef0c4d5
- 41fc3b6567a5b072b45f654fab767457a740c637
- 54e049c227d9968ff6a7d80aae5fec27b54d39da

Need also be applied to Bionic and Cosmic !
For the s390-tools part another LP was created

Since kernel 5.0 laded in disco proposed I'm changing the disco status to Fix Committed.

Verified that commit "s390/qeth: report 25Gbit link speed" landed in Ubuntu-5.0.0-7.8 (as 54e049c).

Kernel 5.0 landed in disco's release pocket, hence changing disco entry to Fix Released.

Kernel SRU request submitted: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2019-March/099329.html

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I did a regression test and ran iperf3 (single thread and 4 threads in parallel) from cosmic to bionic (bionic target) and vice versa (cosmic target) a couple of times.
On top of that I'm of course also remotely connected to these system via OSA (since some hours) using the updated/expanded driver.
Everything looks good and is stable so far - I also did not noticed any performance degradation (by accident I ran some tests earlier this week and compared the throughput, and it's virtually the same).
All this done on z13 with OSA Express 5S.

Hello IBM,

Could you please verify if the Bionic and Cosmic kernels work as expected with the OSA-Express7S adapter?

Thank you.

Hi Kleber, the cosmic and bionic systems that I updated with the kernel(s) from proposed are running now for more than 11 days without any issues, hence I would call that verified successful - if it's okay and sufficient for you, too.

Mark this with verification done as per Frank's comment in #11

Thank you, Frank!

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.18.0-18.19

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linux (4.18.0-18.19) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * linux: 4.18.0-18.19 -proposed tracker (LP: #1822796)

  * Packaging resync (LP: #1786013)
    - [Packaging] update helper scripts
    - [Packaging] resync retpoline extraction

  * 3b080b2564287be91605bfd1d5ee985696e61d3c in ubuntu_btrfs_kernel_fixes
    triggers system hang on i386 (LP: #1812845)
    - btrfs: raid56: properly unmap parity page in finish_parity_scrub()

  * [SRU][B/C/OEM]IOMMU: add kernel dma protection (LP: #1820153)
    - ACPI / property: Allow multiple property compatible _DSD entries
    - PCI / ACPI: Identify untrusted PCI devices
    - iommu/vt-d: Force IOMMU on for platform opt in hint
    - iommu/vt-d: Do not enable ATS for untrusted devices
    - thunderbolt: Export IOMMU based DMA protection support to userspace
    - iommu/vt-d: Disable ATS support on untrusted devices

  * Huawei Hi1822 NIC has poor performance (LP: #1820187)
    - net-next: hinic: fix a problem in free_tx_poll()
    - hinic: remove ndo_poll_controller
    - net-next/hinic: add checksum offload and TSO support
    - hinic: Fix l4_type parameter in hinic_task_set_tunnel_l4
    - net-next/hinic:replace multiply and division operators
    - net-next/hinic:add rx checksum offload for HiNIC
    - net-next/hinic:fix a bug in set mac address
    - net-next/hinic: fix a bug in rx data flow
    - net: hinic: fix null pointer dereference on pointer hwdev
    - hinic: optmize rx refill buffer mechanism
    - net-next/hinic:add shutdown callback
    - net-next/hinic: replace disable_irq_nosync/enable_irq

  * [CONFIG] please enable highdpi font FONT_TER16x32 (LP: #1819881)
    - Fonts: New Terminus large console font
    - [Config]: enable highdpi Terminus 16x32 font support

  * [19.04 FEAT] qeth: Enhanced link speed - kernel part (LP: #1814892)
    - s390/qeth: report 25Gbit link speed

  * Avoid potential memory corruption on HiSilicon SoCs (LP: #1819546)
    - iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Avoid memory corruption from Hisilicon MSI payloads

  * CVE-2017-5715
    - x86/speculation: Apply IBPB more strictly to avoid cross-process data leak
    - x86/speculation: Propagate information about RSB filling mitigation to sysfs
    - x86/speculation: Add RETPOLINE_AMD support to the inline asm CALL_NOSPEC
      variant
    - x86/retpoline: Make CONFIG_RETPOLINE depend on compiler support
    - x86/retpoline: Remove minimal retpoline support
    - x86/speculation: Update the TIF_SSBD comment
    - x86/speculation: Clean up spectre_v2_parse_cmdline()
    - x86/speculation: Remove unnecessary ret variable in cpu_show_common()
    - x86/speculation: Move STIPB/IBPB string conditionals out of
      cpu_show_common()
    - x86/speculation: Disable STIBP when enhanced IBRS is in use
    - x86/speculation: Rename SSBD update functions
    - x86/speculation: Reorganize speculation control MSRs update
    - sched/smt: Make sched_smt_present track topology
    - x86/Kconfig: Select SCHED_SMT if SMP enabled
    - sched/smt: Expose sched_smt_present static key
    - x86/speculation: Rework SMT state change
    - x86/l1tf: Show actual SMT state
    - x86/speculation: R...

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.15.0-48.51

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linux (4.15.0-48.51) bionic; urgency=medium

  * linux: 4.15.0-48.51 -proposed tracker (LP: #1822820)

  * Packaging resync (LP: #1786013)
    - [Packaging] update helper scripts
    - [Packaging] resync retpoline extraction

  * 3b080b2564287be91605bfd1d5ee985696e61d3c in ubuntu_btrfs_kernel_fixes
    triggers system hang on i386 (LP: #1812845)
    - btrfs: raid56: properly unmap parity page in finish_parity_scrub()

  * [P9][LTCTest][Opal][FW910] cpupower monitor shows multiple stop Idle_Stats
    (LP: #1719545)
    - cpupower : Fix header name to read idle state name

  * [amdgpu] screen corruption when using touchpad (LP: #1818617)
    - drm/amdgpu/gmc: steal the appropriate amount of vram for fw hand-over (v3)
    - drm/amdgpu: Free VGA stolen memory as soon as possible.

  * [SRU][B/C/OEM]IOMMU: add kernel dma protection (LP: #1820153)
    - ACPICA: AML parser: attempt to continue loading table after error
    - ACPI / property: Allow multiple property compatible _DSD entries
    - PCI / ACPI: Identify untrusted PCI devices
    - iommu/vt-d: Force IOMMU on for platform opt in hint
    - iommu/vt-d: Do not enable ATS for untrusted devices
    - thunderbolt: Export IOMMU based DMA protection support to userspace
    - iommu/vt-d: Disable ATS support on untrusted devices

  * Add basic support to NVLink2 passthrough (LP: #1819989)
    - powerpc/powernv/npu: Do not try invalidating 32bit table when 64bit table is
      enabled
    - powerpc/powernv: call OPAL_QUIESCE before OPAL_SIGNAL_SYSTEM_RESET
    - powerpc/powernv: Export opal_check_token symbol
    - powerpc/powernv: Make possible for user to force a full ipl cec reboot
    - powerpc/powernv/idoa: Remove unnecessary pcidev from pci_dn
    - powerpc/powernv: Move npu struct from pnv_phb to pci_controller
    - powerpc/powernv/npu: Move OPAL calls away from context manipulation
    - powerpc/pseries/iommu: Use memory@ nodes in max RAM address calculation
    - powerpc/pseries/npu: Enable platform support
    - powerpc/pseries: Remove IOMMU API support for non-LPAR systems
    - powerpc/powernv/npu: Check mmio_atsd array bounds when populating
    - powerpc/powernv/npu: Fault user page into the hypervisor's pagetable

  * Huawei Hi1822 NIC has poor performance (LP: #1820187)
    - net-next: hinic: fix a problem in free_tx_poll()
    - hinic: remove ndo_poll_controller
    - net-next/hinic: add checksum offload and TSO support
    - hinic: Fix l4_type parameter in hinic_task_set_tunnel_l4
    - net-next/hinic:replace multiply and division operators
    - net-next/hinic:add rx checksum offload for HiNIC
    - net-next/hinic:fix a bug in set mac address
    - net-next/hinic: fix a bug in rx data flow
    - net: hinic: fix null pointer dereference on pointer hwdev
    - hinic: optmize rx refill buffer mechanism
    - net-next/hinic:add shutdown callback
    - net-next/hinic: replace disable_irq_nosync/enable_irq

  * [CONFIG] please enable highdpi font FONT_TER16x32 (LP: #1819881)
    - Fonts: New Terminus large console font
    - [Config]: enable highdpi Terminus 16x32 font support

  * [19.04 FEAT] qeth: Enhanced link...

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2019-04-24 04:30 EDT-------
IBM Bugzilla status -> closed, Fix Released for all requested Distros

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