[19.10 FEAT] Enhanced Hardware Support

Bug #1830742 reported by bugproxy
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu on IBM z Systems
Fix Released
High
Frank Heimes
linux (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Skipper Bug Screeners

Bug Description

Summary: kernel: report new CPU capabilities

Description: Add hardware capability bits and features tags to /proc/cpuinfo
             for 4 new CPU features: the "Vector-Enhancements Facility 2",
             the "Vector-Packed-Decimal-Enhancement Facility", the
             "Enhanced-Sort Facility" and the "Deflate-Conversion Facility"

Upstream-ID: a8fd61688dfad6fdce95fa64cacd8a66595697b8
Available with kernel 5.2

bugproxy (bugproxy)
tags: added: architecture-s39064 bugnameltc-177865 severity-high targetmilestone-inin1910
Changed in ubuntu:
assignee: nobody → Skipper Bug Screeners (skipper-screen-team)
affects: ubuntu → linux (Ubuntu)
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Frank Heimes (fheimes) wrote :

Changing Status to Incomplete until kernel 5.2 has landed in 19.10.
Will then double check the commit.

Changed in ubuntu-z-systems:
status: New → Incomplete
importance: Undecided → High
assignee: nobody → Frank Heimes (frank-heimes)
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bugproxy (bugproxy) wrote : Comment bridged from LTC Bugzilla

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2019-07-10 08:00 EDT-------
git commit for kernel 5.2
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/142c52d7bc

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bugproxy (bugproxy) wrote :

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2019-07-10 09:07 EDT-------
PLease use this as the correct git commit:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a8fd61688d

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Frank Heimes (fheimes) wrote :

$ rmadison --arch=s390x linux-generic | grep eoan-proposed
 linux-generic | 5.2.0.8.9 | eoan-proposed | s390x
$ git tag --contains a8fd61688d
Ubuntu-5.2.0-8.9
v5.2
$ git show a8fd61688d
commit a8fd61688dfad6fdce95fa64cacd8a66595697b8
Author: Martin Schwidefsky <email address hidden>
Date: Tue Feb 5 16:15:01 2019 +0100

    s390: report new CPU capabilities

    Add hardware capability bits and features tags to /proc/cpuinfo
    for 4 new CPU features:
      "Vector-Enhancements Facility 2" (tag "vxe2", hwcap 2^15)
      "Vector-Packed-Decimal-Enhancement Facility" (tag "vxp", hwcap 2^16)
      "Enhanced-Sort Facility" (tag "sort", hwcap 2^17)
      "Deflate-Conversion Facility" (tag "dflt", hwcap 2^18)

    Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens <email address hidden>
    Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <email address hidden>

With that changing status to Fix Committed.

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Committed
Changed in ubuntu-z-systems:
status: Incomplete → Fix Committed
information type: Private → Public
Revision history for this message
Frank Heimes (fheimes) wrote :

Since kernel 5.2 eventually landed in eoan's release pocket:
  linux-generic | 5.2.0.8.9 | eoan | s390
I'm changing this LP ticket to Fix Released.

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in ubuntu-z-systems:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
bugproxy (bugproxy) wrote :

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2019-07-16 06:31 EDT-------
IBM bugzilla status -> closed, Fix Released with Eoan

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