Comment 11 for bug 1619552

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2016-10-06 08:52 EDT-------
Before the patch::

root@p8wookie:~# dmesg | less
root@p8wookie:~# cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="16.04.1 LTS (Xenial Xerus)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS"
VERSION_ID="16.04"
HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
UBUNTU_CODENAME=xenial
root@p8wookie:~# uname -a
Linux p8wookie 4.4.19+ #1 SMP Thu Oct 6 05:51:06 CDT 2016 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux
root@p8wookie:~#

root@p8wookie:~# ps -ef | grep opal
root 654 2 0 07:10 ? 00:00:00 [kopald]
root 655 2 0 07:10 ? 00:00:00 [irq/29-opal-elo]
root 656 2 0 07:10 ? 00:00:00 [irq/30-opal-dum]
root 3185 1 0 07:17 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/opal_errd
root 3580 2276 0 07:18 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto opal

root@p8wookie:~# ls /sys/firmware/opal/elog/
0x5005d751

After the patch:

root@p8wookie:/home/ubuntu/xenial# ps -ef | grep opal
root 654 2 0 07:47 ? 00:00:00 [kopald]
root 655 2 0 07:47 ? 00:00:00 [irq/29-opal-elo]
root 656 2 0 07:47 ? 00:00:00 [irq/30-opal-dum]
root 3915 1 0 07:47 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/opal_errd
root 4583 4552 0 07:50 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto opal
root@p8wookie:/home/ubuntu/xenial#
root@p8wookie:/home/ubuntu/xenial# ls /sys/firmware/opal/elog/
root@p8wookie:/home/ubuntu/xenial# cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="16.04.1 LTS (Xenial Xerus)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS"
VERSION_ID="16.04"
HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
UBUNTU_CODENAME=xenial
root@p8wookie:/home/ubuntu/xenial# uname -a
Linux p8wookie 4.4.21+ #3 SMP Thu Oct 6 07:28:43 CDT 2016 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux
root@p8wookie:/home/ubuntu/xenial#

root@p8wookie:/home/ubuntu/xenial# dmesg | grep Duplicate
[ 1.161752] ELOG:Duplicate log =500627d0
root@p8wookie:/home/ubuntu/xenial#

It works as expected.

-Mukesh