[Feature] RDT: Disable most RDT features on Skylake server

[quanxian]

Description:

There are serious errata in CMT, MBM and CAT sub-features of resource director technology. Disable these features by default on Skylake but provide a boot time argument to re-enable them for users who understand the errata and can use them for specific workloads.

Commit IDs:(4.14)
0576113a387e0c8a5d9e24b4cd62605d1c9c0db8
1d9807fc64c131a83a96917f2b2da1c9b00cf127
d56593eb5eda8f593db92927059697bbf89bc4b3

Target Release : 17.10
Target Kernel: 4.14

(Need backporting into 17.10 from 4.14 to 4.13)

[quanxian (quanxian-wang)]

@Canonical, need backport.

[Seth Forshee (sforshee)]

0576113a387e0c8a5d9e24b4cd62605d1c9c0db8 doesn't apply cleanly, and backporting to 4.13 is not trivial. Can Intel please advise whether we need to get additional commits?

[quanxian (quanxian-wang)]

got that. Intel is working on that. Thx

[[e-mail] (pragyan)]

Pre-requisite changes:
5707b46a4206 x86/intel_rdt: Remove redundant ternary operator on return -> tip
24247aeeabe9 x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Improve limbo list processing -> tip
bbc4615e0b7d x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Fix MBM overflow handler during CPU hotplug -> tip
a9110b552d44 x86/intel_rdt: Modify the intel_pqr_state for better performance -> tip
eda61c265f36 x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Clear the default RMID during hotcpu -> tip
0dd2d7494cd8 x86/intel_rdt: Show bitmask of shareable resource with other executing units -> tip
e33026831bdb x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Handle counter overflow -> tip
a4de1dfdd726 x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Add mbm counter initialization -> tip
9f52425ba303 x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Basic counting of MBM events (total and local) -> tip
895c663ecef1 x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add CPU hotplug support -> tip
748b6b881ccd x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add sched_in support -> tip
4be6c078428b x86/intel_rdt: Introduce rdt_enable_key for scheduling -> tip
4af4a88e0c92 x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add mount,umount support -> tip
f3cbeacaa06e x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add rmdir support -> tip
f9049547f7e7 x86/intel_rdt: Separate the ctrl bits from rmdir -> tip
d89b7379015f x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add mon_data -> tip
90c403e83101 x86/intel_rdt: Prepare for RDT monitor data support -> tip
a9fcf8627dc0 x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add cpus file support -> tip
b09d981b3f34 x86/intel_rdt: Prepare to add RDT monitor cpus file support -> tip
d6aaba615a48 x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add tasks file support -> tip
0734ded1abee x86/intel_rdt: Change closid type from int to u32 -> tip
c7d9aac61311 x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add mkdir support for RDT monitoring -> tip
65b4f403057e x86/intel_rdt: Prepare for RDT monitoring mkdir support -> tip
d4ab33201029 x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add info files for RDT monitoring -> tip
5dc1d5c6bac2 x86/intel_rdt: Simplify info and base file lists -> tip
edf6fa1c4a95 x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add RMID (Resource monitoring ID) management -> tip
6a445edce657 x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add RDT monitoring initialization -> tip
dd131853f3fb x86/intel_rdt: Make rdt_resources_all more readable -> tip
1b5c0b758317 x86/intel_rdt: Cleanup namespace to support RDT monitoring -> tip
cb2200e967c6 x86/intel_rdt: Mark rdt_root and closid_alloc as static -> tip
0583020456ce x86/intel_rdt: Change file names to accommodate RDT monitor code -> tip
f01d7d51f577 x86/intel_rdt: Introduce a common compile option for RDT -> tip
1640ae9471ae x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Documentation for resctrl based RDT Monitoring -> tip
c39a0e2c8850 x86/perf/cqm: Wipe out perf based cqm -> tip

[quanxian (quanxian-wang)]

Seems the patches are from https://bugs.launchpad.net/intel/+bug/1591609. So if you merge these patches into 17.10, 1591609 should be also done. :)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.13.0-15.16

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linux (4.13.0-15.16) artful; urgency=low

  * linux: 4.13.0-15.16 -proposed tracker (LP: #1721373)

  * Boot regression on POWER9 (LP: #1721391)
    - Revert "crypto/nx: Add P9 NX support for 842 compression engine"
    - Revert "crypto/nx: Add P9 NX specific error codes for 842 engine"
    - Revert "crypto/nx: Use kzalloc for workmem allocation"
    - Revert "crypto/nx: Add nx842_add_coprocs_list function"
    - Revert "crypto/nx: Create nx842_delete_coprocs function"
    - Revert "crypto/nx: Create nx842_configure_crb function"
    - Revert "crypto/nx: Rename nx842_powernv_function as icswx function"
    - Revert "UBUNTU: [Config] CONFIG_PPC_VAS=y"
    - Revert "powerpc/powernv/vas: Define copy/paste interfaces"
    - Revert "powerpc/powernv/vas: Define vas_tx_win_open()"
    - Revert "powerpc/powernv/vas: Define vas_win_close() interface"
    - Revert "powerpc/powernv/vas: Define vas_rx_win_open() interface"
    - Revert "powerpc/powernv/vas: Define helpers to alloc/free windows"
    - Revert "powerpc/powernv/vas: Define helpers to init window context"
    - Revert "powerpc/powernv/vas: Define helpers to access MMIO regions"
    - Revert "powerpc/powernv/vas: Define vas_init() and vas_exit()"
    - Revert "powerpc/powernv: Move GET_FIELD/SET_FIELD to vas.h"
    - Revert "powerpc/powernv/vas: Define macros, register fields and structures"
    - Revert "powerpc/powernv: Enable PCI peer-to-peer"
    - Revert "powerpc/powernv: Add support to set power-shifting-ratio"
    - Revert "powerpc/powernv: Add support for powercap framework"
    - Revert "powerpc/perf: Add nest IMC PMU support"
    - Revert "powerpc/powernv: Detect and create IMC device"
    - Revert "powerpc/powernv: Add IMC OPAL APIs"

  * smartpqi patches for Artful (LP: #1721381)
    - scsi: smartpqi: add pqi reset quiesce support
    - scsi: smartpqi: enhance BMIC cache flush
    - scsi: smartpqi: update pqi passthru ioctl
    - scsi: smartpqi: cleanup doorbell register usage.
    - scsi: smartpqi: update kexec and power down support
    - scsi: smartpqi: add in new controller ids
    - scsi: smartpqi: change driver version to 1.1.2-125

  * CONFIG_DEBUG_FS is not enabled by "make zfcpdump_defconfig" with Ubuntu
    17.10 (kernel 4.13) (LP: #1719290)
    - SAUCE: s390: update zfcpdump_defconfig

  * [Feature] PXE boot with Intel Omni-Path (LP: #1712031)
    - d-i: Add hfi1 to nic-modules

  * [Feature]CNL:New device IDs for CNL (LP: #1685729)
    - pinctrl: intel: Add Intel Cannon Lake PCH-H pin controller support

linux (4.13.0-14.15) artful; urgency=low

  * linux: 4.13.0-14.15 -proposed tracker (LP: #1721122)

  * [Artful] ltp rwtest - Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual
    address (LP: #1721067)
    - arm64: mm: Use READ_ONCE when dereferencing pointer to pte table

  * linux 4.13.0-13.14 ADT test failure with linux 4.13.0-13.14 (LP: #1720779)
    - SAUCE: LSM stacking: check for invalid zero sized writes

  * Add installer support for Broadcom BCM573xx network drivers. (LP: #1720466)
    - d-i: Add bnxt_en to nic-modules.

  * Miscellaneous Ubuntu changes
    - [Packaging] Include arch/arm6...