[Feature][CFL] Enable pmc_core driver for H, S, and U SKUs

[quanxian]

Description:

Need to enable pmc_core driver for Coffee Lake so we can get at the slp_s0# counter, which measures S0ix residency.

Target Kernel:4.16
Target Release: 18.04

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Is there a list of commits we should confirm for 18.04?

[quanxian (quanxian-wang)]

Commit list from upstream. @Caonical If possible, please porting these commits into 18.04. Thanks

00f8b2fce4da2296bafc1de6a46510a13ef60938
v4.16-rc1~54^2~27
12d614a0dcaee9668c641fcaa9f524da861a765e
v4.16-rc1~54^2~41
1f644da7e920cb83403818efa88ebfb6d1528264
v4.16-rc1~54^2~37
21ae43570940f8393a80369f62a3880bd64daad8
v4.16-rc1~54^2~28
2854a0aa822c11ea8538ebfe94a62e20ab570e2b
v4.16-rc1~54^2~38
291101f6a73566f5d1ab597784288c5bc85906fd
v4.16-rc1~54^2~2
661405bd817b209ac9bd4812c63d90873a7f2993
v4.16-rc1~54^2~1
745698c37c08f48fb5ad3c0cb7ee955bd5701d4a
v4.16-rc1~54^2~4
750e0f570b7145870d40f07337f3356c18e0abd4
v4.16-rc1~54^2~29
9383bbadfe29fe8319e2245b75a508db9abd7b87
v4.16-rc1~54^2~5
941691ef2197944a202d7870dcd7da3fb0391c65
v4.16-rc1~54^2~10

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.15.0-15.16

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linux (4.15.0-15.16) bionic; urgency=medium

  * linux: 4.15.0-15.16 -proposed tracker (LP: #1761177)

  * FFe: Enable configuring resume offset via sysfs (LP: #1760106)
    - PM / hibernate: Make passing hibernate offsets more friendly

  * /dev/bcache/by-uuid links not created after reboot (LP: #1729145)
    - SAUCE: (no-up) bcache: decouple emitting a cached_dev CHANGE uevent

  * Ubuntu18.04:POWER9:DD2.2 - Unable to start a KVM guest with default machine
    type(pseries-bionic) complaining "KVM implementation does not support
    Transactional Memory, try cap-htm=off" (kvm) (LP: #1752026)
    - powerpc: Use feature bit for RTC presence rather than timebase presence
    - powerpc: Book E: Remove unused CPU_FTR_L2CSR bit
    - powerpc: Free up CPU feature bits on 64-bit machines
    - powerpc: Add CPU feature bits for TM bug workarounds on POWER9 v2.2
    - powerpc/powernv: Provide a way to force a core into SMT4 mode
    - KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Work around transactional memory bugs in POWER9
    - KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Work around XER[SO] bug in fake suspend mode
    - KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Work around TEXASR bug in fake suspend state

  * Important Kernel fixes to be backported for Power9 (kvm) (LP: #1758910)
    - powerpc/mm: Fixup tlbie vs store ordering issue on POWER9

  * Ubuntu 18.04 - IO Hang on some namespaces when running HTX with 16
    namespaces (Bolt / NVMe) (LP: #1757497)
    - powerpc/64s: Fix lost pending interrupt due to race causing lost update to
      irq_happened

  * fwts-efi-runtime-dkms 18.03.00-0ubuntu1: fwts-efi-runtime-dkms kernel module
    failed to build (LP: #1760876)
    - [Packaging] include the retpoline extractor in the headers

linux (4.15.0-14.15) bionic; urgency=medium

  * linux: 4.15.0-14.15 -proposed tracker (LP: #1760678)

  * [Bionic] mlx4 ETH - mlnx_qos failed when set some TC to vendor
    (LP: #1758662)
    - net/mlx4_en: Change default QoS settings

  * AT_BASE_PLATFORM in AUXV is absent on kernels available on Ubuntu 17.10
    (LP: #1759312)
    - powerpc/64s: Fix NULL AT_BASE_PLATFORM when using DT CPU features

  * Bionic update to 4.15.15 stable release (LP: #1760585)
    - net: dsa: Fix dsa_is_user_port() test inversion
    - openvswitch: meter: fix the incorrect calculation of max delta_t
    - qed: Fix MPA unalign flow in case header is split across two packets.
    - tcp: purge write queue upon aborting the connection
    - qed: Fix non TCP packets should be dropped on iWARP ll2 connection
    - sysfs: symlink: export sysfs_create_link_nowarn()
    - net: phy: relax error checking when creating sysfs link netdev->phydev
    - devlink: Remove redundant free on error path
    - macvlan: filter out unsupported feature flags
    - net: ipv6: keep sk status consistent after datagram connect failure
    - ipv6: old_dport should be a __be16 in __ip6_datagram_connect()
    - ipv6: sr: fix NULL pointer dereference when setting encap source address
    - ipv6: sr: fix scheduling in RCU when creating seg6 lwtunnel state
    - mlxsw: spectrum_buffers: Set a minimum quota for CPU port traffic
    - net: phy: Tell caller result ...