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bugproxy (bugproxy) wrote :

---Problem Description---
24x7 counters: Bug in catalog_read()

---Additional Hardware Info---
Power8 system with support for 24x7 counters

 Machine Type = Power8 IBM,9119-MME

---Steps to Reproduce---
cp /sys/bus/event_source/devices/hv_24x7/interface/catalog /tmp
ls -l /tmp/catalog

Shows a file size 0 for the /tmp/catalog.

We recently discovered a bug in the upstream Linux kernel. It was
fixed by this patch

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/1/35

and that patch is scheduled to be included in powerpc tree.

When it is included, we should back port to Ubuntu 14.10 or next release.