Activity log for bug #1806104

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2018-11-30 18:09:23 bugproxy bug added bug
2018-11-30 18:09:25 bugproxy tags architecture-ppc64le bugnameltc-166118 severity-medium targetmilestone-inin18043
2018-11-30 18:09:26 bugproxy attachment added guest.xml https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1806104/+attachment/5217738/+files/file_166118.txt
2018-11-30 18:09:28 bugproxy attachment added qemu log https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1806104/+attachment/5217739/+files/file_166118.txt
2018-11-30 18:09:30 bugproxy ubuntu: assignee Ubuntu on IBM Power Systems Bug Triage (ubuntu-power-triage)
2018-11-30 18:09:33 bugproxy affects ubuntu qemu (Ubuntu)
2018-11-30 19:09:00 Frank Heimes bug task added ubuntu-power-systems
2018-11-30 19:09:19 Frank Heimes ubuntu-power-systems: status New Triaged
2018-11-30 19:09:30 Frank Heimes ubuntu-power-systems: importance Undecided Medium
2018-11-30 19:09:49 Frank Heimes ubuntu-power-systems: assignee Canonical Server Team (canonical-server)
2018-12-03 07:23:21 Christian Ehrhardt  nominated for series Ubuntu Cosmic
2018-12-03 07:23:21 Christian Ehrhardt  bug task added qemu (Ubuntu Cosmic)
2018-12-03 07:23:21 Christian Ehrhardt  nominated for series Ubuntu Bionic
2018-12-03 07:23:21 Christian Ehrhardt  bug task added qemu (Ubuntu Bionic)
2018-12-03 07:23:32 Christian Ehrhardt  tags architecture-ppc64le bugnameltc-166118 severity-medium targetmilestone-inin18043 architecture-ppc64le bugnameltc-166118 qemu-19.04 severity-medium targetmilestone-inin18043
2018-12-03 07:23:37 Christian Ehrhardt  qemu (Ubuntu Bionic): status New Triaged
2018-12-03 07:23:39 Christian Ehrhardt  qemu (Ubuntu Cosmic): status New Triaged
2018-12-03 07:23:41 Christian Ehrhardt  qemu (Ubuntu): status New Triaged
2018-12-03 07:23:45 Christian Ehrhardt  qemu (Ubuntu): importance Undecided Medium
2018-12-03 07:23:47 Christian Ehrhardt  qemu (Ubuntu Bionic): importance Undecided Low
2018-12-03 07:23:48 Christian Ehrhardt  qemu (Ubuntu Cosmic): importance Undecided Low
2018-12-03 07:26:39 Christian Ehrhardt  description Problem : The following warning message is noticed when booting guest backed by hugepages. "2018-03-28T07:45:18.500173Z qemu-system-ppc64: System page size 0x40000000 is not enabled in page_size_mask (0x11000). Performance may be slow" Guest bootsup, however the warning message is see in qemu.log. Test Environment : Boston-LC Linux : 4.15.0-12-generic NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION="18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)" ID=ubuntu Guest is backed by hugepages. Guest xml <memoryBacking> <hugepages> <page size='1048576' unit='KiB'/> </hugepages> </memoryBacking> Host Hugepages. cat /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages 4 One the guest is started, we see the warning message in the qemu.log cat /var/log/libvirt/qemu/Hari_compact_mode.log ---- ---- ---- 2018-03-28T07:45:18.370804Z qemu-system-ppc64: -chardev pty,id=charserial0: char device redirected to /dev/pts/2 (label charserial0) 2018-03-28T07:45:18.500173Z qemu-system-ppc64: System page size 0x40000000 is not enabled in page_size_mask (0x11000). Performance may be slow Leonardo/Breno, Is it possible we can request canonical to backport the below commit into Ubuntu 18.04 level ? https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/30f79dc13f116a79ff45d37ad0f5c035012064a7 [Impact] * There is a message which was identified more confusing and misleading than helpful that should be dropped to avoid users being unsure about it. * Fix: Just apply upstream change dropping the message [Test Case] * Run power8 (cpu model on qemu) guest on power9 system and check guest log in /var/log/libvirt/qemu/<guestname.log> * these should allow someone who is not familiar with the affected package to reproduce the bug and verify that the updated package fixes the problem. [Regression Potential] * This drops a warning (that was almost never useful and often confusing). But it had no functional change to the behavior, therefore no regression should be seen at all (unless somebody missing the old message counts). [Other Info] * n/a ---- Problem : The following warning message is noticed when booting guest backed by hugepages. "2018-03-28T07:45:18.500173Z qemu-system-ppc64: System page size 0x40000000 is not enabled in page_size_mask (0x11000). Performance may be slow" Guest bootsup, however the warning message is see in qemu.log. Test Environment : Boston-LC Linux : 4.15.0-12-generic NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION="18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)" ID=ubuntu Guest is backed by hugepages. Guest xml   <memoryBacking>     <hugepages>       <page size='1048576' unit='KiB'/>     </hugepages>   </memoryBacking> Host Hugepages. cat /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages 4 One the guest is started, we see the warning message in the qemu.log cat /var/log/libvirt/qemu/Hari_compact_mode.log ---- ---- ---- 2018-03-28T07:45:18.370804Z qemu-system-ppc64: -chardev pty,id=charserial0: char device redirected to /dev/pts/2 (label charserial0) 2018-03-28T07:45:18.500173Z qemu-system-ppc64: System page size 0x40000000 is not enabled in page_size_mask (0x11000). Performance may be slow Leonardo/Breno, Is it possible we can request canonical to backport the below commit into Ubuntu 18.04 level ? https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/30f79dc13f116a79ff45d37ad0f5c035012064a7
2018-12-03 07:27:42 Christian Ehrhardt  description [Impact] * There is a message which was identified more confusing and misleading than helpful that should be dropped to avoid users being unsure about it. * Fix: Just apply upstream change dropping the message [Test Case] * Run power8 (cpu model on qemu) guest on power9 system and check guest log in /var/log/libvirt/qemu/<guestname.log> * these should allow someone who is not familiar with the affected package to reproduce the bug and verify that the updated package fixes the problem. [Regression Potential] * This drops a warning (that was almost never useful and often confusing). But it had no functional change to the behavior, therefore no regression should be seen at all (unless somebody missing the old message counts). [Other Info] * n/a ---- Problem : The following warning message is noticed when booting guest backed by hugepages. "2018-03-28T07:45:18.500173Z qemu-system-ppc64: System page size 0x40000000 is not enabled in page_size_mask (0x11000). Performance may be slow" Guest bootsup, however the warning message is see in qemu.log. Test Environment : Boston-LC Linux : 4.15.0-12-generic NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION="18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)" ID=ubuntu Guest is backed by hugepages. Guest xml   <memoryBacking>     <hugepages>       <page size='1048576' unit='KiB'/>     </hugepages>   </memoryBacking> Host Hugepages. cat /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages 4 One the guest is started, we see the warning message in the qemu.log cat /var/log/libvirt/qemu/Hari_compact_mode.log ---- ---- ---- 2018-03-28T07:45:18.370804Z qemu-system-ppc64: -chardev pty,id=charserial0: char device redirected to /dev/pts/2 (label charserial0) 2018-03-28T07:45:18.500173Z qemu-system-ppc64: System page size 0x40000000 is not enabled in page_size_mask (0x11000). Performance may be slow Leonardo/Breno, Is it possible we can request canonical to backport the below commit into Ubuntu 18.04 level ? https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/30f79dc13f116a79ff45d37ad0f5c035012064a7 [Impact]  * There is a message which was identified more confusing and misleading    than helpful that should be dropped to avoid users being unsure about    it.  * Fix: Just apply upstream change dropping the message [Test Case]  * Run huge page backed power8 (cpu model on qemu) guest on power9 system and check guest log in /var/log/libvirt/qemu/<guestname.log>  * these should allow someone who is not familiar with the affected    package to reproduce the bug and verify that the updated package fixes    the problem. [Regression Potential]  * This drops a warning (that was almost never useful and often    confusing). But it had no functional change to the behavior,    therefore no regression should be seen at all (unless somebody    missing the old message counts). [Other Info]  * n/a ---- Problem : The following warning message is noticed when booting guest backed by hugepages. "2018-03-28T07:45:18.500173Z qemu-system-ppc64: System page size 0x40000000 is not enabled in page_size_mask (0x11000). Performance may be slow" Guest bootsup, however the warning message is see in qemu.log. Test Environment : Boston-LC Linux : 4.15.0-12-generic NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION="18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)" ID=ubuntu Guest is backed by hugepages. Guest xml   <memoryBacking>     <hugepages>       <page size='1048576' unit='KiB'/>     </hugepages>   </memoryBacking> Host Hugepages. cat /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages 4 One the guest is started, we see the warning message in the qemu.log cat /var/log/libvirt/qemu/Hari_compact_mode.log ---- ---- ---- 2018-03-28T07:45:18.370804Z qemu-system-ppc64: -chardev pty,id=charserial0: char device redirected to /dev/pts/2 (label charserial0) 2018-03-28T07:45:18.500173Z qemu-system-ppc64: System page size 0x40000000 is not enabled in page_size_mask (0x11000). Performance may be slow Leonardo/Breno, Is it possible we can request canonical to backport the below commit into Ubuntu 18.04 level ? https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/30f79dc13f116a79ff45d37ad0f5c035012064a7
2019-01-30 22:24:10 Launchpad Janitor qemu (Ubuntu): status Triaged Fix Released
2019-01-30 22:24:10 Launchpad Janitor cve linked 2016-10028
2019-01-30 22:24:10 Launchpad Janitor cve linked 2017-8284
2019-01-30 22:24:10 Launchpad Janitor cve linked 2017-9060
2019-01-30 22:24:10 Launchpad Janitor cve linked 2018-10839
2019-01-30 22:24:10 Launchpad Janitor cve linked 2018-11806
2019-01-30 22:24:10 Launchpad Janitor cve linked 2018-12617
2019-01-30 22:24:10 Launchpad Janitor cve linked 2018-15746
2019-01-30 22:24:10 Launchpad Janitor cve linked 2018-16847
2019-01-30 22:24:10 Launchpad Janitor cve linked 2018-16867
2019-01-30 22:24:10 Launchpad Janitor cve linked 2018-16872
2019-01-30 22:24:10 Launchpad Janitor cve linked 2018-17958
2019-01-30 22:24:10 Launchpad Janitor cve linked 2018-17962
2019-01-30 22:24:10 Launchpad Janitor cve linked 2018-17963
2019-01-30 22:24:10 Launchpad Janitor cve linked 2018-18438
2019-01-30 22:24:10 Launchpad Janitor cve linked 2018-18849
2019-01-30 22:24:10 Launchpad Janitor cve linked 2018-18954
2019-01-30 22:24:10 Launchpad Janitor cve linked 2018-19364
2019-01-30 22:24:10 Launchpad Janitor cve linked 2018-19489
2019-01-30 22:24:10 Launchpad Janitor cve linked 2018-19665
2019-01-30 22:24:10 Launchpad Janitor cve linked 2018-3639
2019-01-31 07:07:12 Frank Heimes ubuntu-power-systems: status Triaged In Progress
2019-01-31 08:28:44 Christian Ehrhardt  description [Impact]  * There is a message which was identified more confusing and misleading    than helpful that should be dropped to avoid users being unsure about    it.  * Fix: Just apply upstream change dropping the message [Test Case]  * Run huge page backed power8 (cpu model on qemu) guest on power9 system and check guest log in /var/log/libvirt/qemu/<guestname.log>  * these should allow someone who is not familiar with the affected    package to reproduce the bug and verify that the updated package fixes    the problem. [Regression Potential]  * This drops a warning (that was almost never useful and often    confusing). But it had no functional change to the behavior,    therefore no regression should be seen at all (unless somebody    missing the old message counts). [Other Info]  * n/a ---- Problem : The following warning message is noticed when booting guest backed by hugepages. "2018-03-28T07:45:18.500173Z qemu-system-ppc64: System page size 0x40000000 is not enabled in page_size_mask (0x11000). Performance may be slow" Guest bootsup, however the warning message is see in qemu.log. Test Environment : Boston-LC Linux : 4.15.0-12-generic NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION="18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)" ID=ubuntu Guest is backed by hugepages. Guest xml   <memoryBacking>     <hugepages>       <page size='1048576' unit='KiB'/>     </hugepages>   </memoryBacking> Host Hugepages. cat /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages 4 One the guest is started, we see the warning message in the qemu.log cat /var/log/libvirt/qemu/Hari_compact_mode.log ---- ---- ---- 2018-03-28T07:45:18.370804Z qemu-system-ppc64: -chardev pty,id=charserial0: char device redirected to /dev/pts/2 (label charserial0) 2018-03-28T07:45:18.500173Z qemu-system-ppc64: System page size 0x40000000 is not enabled in page_size_mask (0x11000). Performance may be slow Leonardo/Breno, Is it possible we can request canonical to backport the below commit into Ubuntu 18.04 level ? https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/30f79dc13f116a79ff45d37ad0f5c035012064a7 [Impact]  * There is a message which was identified more confusing and misleading    than helpful that should be dropped to avoid users being unsure about    it.  * Fix: Backport the upstream change dropping the message [Test Case]  * Run huge page backed power8 (cpu model on qemu) guest on power9 system    and check guest log in /var/log/libvirt/qemu/<guestname.log> [Regression Potential]  * This drops a warning (that was almost never useful and often    confusing). But it had no functional change to the behavior,    therefore no regression should be seen at all (unless somebody    missing the old message counts). [Other Info]  * n/a ---- Problem : The following warning message is noticed when booting guest backed by hugepages. "2018-03-28T07:45:18.500173Z qemu-system-ppc64: System page size 0x40000000 is not enabled in page_size_mask (0x11000). Performance may be slow" Guest bootsup, however the warning message is see in qemu.log. Test Environment : Boston-LC Linux : 4.15.0-12-generic NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION="18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)" ID=ubuntu Guest is backed by hugepages. Guest xml   <memoryBacking>     <hugepages>       <page size='1048576' unit='KiB'/>     </hugepages>   </memoryBacking> Host Hugepages. cat /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages 4 One the guest is started, we see the warning message in the qemu.log cat /var/log/libvirt/qemu/Hari_compact_mode.log ---- ---- ---- 2018-03-28T07:45:18.370804Z qemu-system-ppc64: -chardev pty,id=charserial0: char device redirected to /dev/pts/2 (label charserial0) 2018-03-28T07:45:18.500173Z qemu-system-ppc64: System page size 0x40000000 is not enabled in page_size_mask (0x11000). Performance may be slow Leonardo/Breno, Is it possible we can request canonical to backport the below commit into Ubuntu 18.04 level ? https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/30f79dc13f116a79ff45d37ad0f5c035012064a7
2019-01-31 15:53:57 Launchpad Janitor merge proposal linked https://code.launchpad.net/~paelzer/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+git/qemu/+merge/362539
2019-01-31 15:56:49 Launchpad Janitor merge proposal linked https://code.launchpad.net/~paelzer/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+git/qemu/+merge/362540
2019-02-01 11:43:35 Christian Ehrhardt  description [Impact]  * There is a message which was identified more confusing and misleading    than helpful that should be dropped to avoid users being unsure about    it.  * Fix: Backport the upstream change dropping the message [Test Case]  * Run huge page backed power8 (cpu model on qemu) guest on power9 system    and check guest log in /var/log/libvirt/qemu/<guestname.log> [Regression Potential]  * This drops a warning (that was almost never useful and often    confusing). But it had no functional change to the behavior,    therefore no regression should be seen at all (unless somebody    missing the old message counts). [Other Info]  * n/a ---- Problem : The following warning message is noticed when booting guest backed by hugepages. "2018-03-28T07:45:18.500173Z qemu-system-ppc64: System page size 0x40000000 is not enabled in page_size_mask (0x11000). Performance may be slow" Guest bootsup, however the warning message is see in qemu.log. Test Environment : Boston-LC Linux : 4.15.0-12-generic NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION="18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)" ID=ubuntu Guest is backed by hugepages. Guest xml   <memoryBacking>     <hugepages>       <page size='1048576' unit='KiB'/>     </hugepages>   </memoryBacking> Host Hugepages. cat /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages 4 One the guest is started, we see the warning message in the qemu.log cat /var/log/libvirt/qemu/Hari_compact_mode.log ---- ---- ---- 2018-03-28T07:45:18.370804Z qemu-system-ppc64: -chardev pty,id=charserial0: char device redirected to /dev/pts/2 (label charserial0) 2018-03-28T07:45:18.500173Z qemu-system-ppc64: System page size 0x40000000 is not enabled in page_size_mask (0x11000). Performance may be slow Leonardo/Breno, Is it possible we can request canonical to backport the below commit into Ubuntu 18.04 level ? https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/30f79dc13f116a79ff45d37ad0f5c035012064a7 [Impact]  * There is a message which was identified more confusing and misleading    than helpful that should be dropped to avoid users being unsure about    it.  * Fix: Backport the upstream change dropping the message [Test Case]  * Run huge page backed guest on a power9 system <memory unit='KiB'>1048576</memory> <currentMemory unit='KiB'>1048576</currentMemory> <memoryBacking> <hugepages> <page size='1048576' unit='KiB'/> </hugepages> </memoryBacking> Make sure to have huge pages available e.g. via boot arg: default_hugepagesz=1G hugepagesz=1G hugepages=8 Then start the guest and check guest log in /var/log/libvirt/qemu/<guestname.log> Without fix: 2019-02-01T11:39:18.295357Z qemu-system-ppc64: System page size 0x40000000 is not enabled in page_size_mask (0x11000). Performance may be slow With the fix this message should not appear. [Regression Potential]  * This drops a warning (that was almost never useful and often    confusing). But it had no functional change to the behavior,    therefore no regression should be seen at all (unless somebody    missing the old message counts). [Other Info]  * n/a ---- Problem : The following warning message is noticed when booting guest backed by hugepages. "2018-03-28T07:45:18.500173Z qemu-system-ppc64: System page size 0x40000000 is not enabled in page_size_mask (0x11000). Performance may be slow" Guest bootsup, however the warning message is see in qemu.log. Test Environment : Boston-LC Linux : 4.15.0-12-generic NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION="18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)" ID=ubuntu Guest is backed by hugepages. Guest xml   <memoryBacking>     <hugepages>       <page size='1048576' unit='KiB'/>     </hugepages>   </memoryBacking> Host Hugepages. cat /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages 4 One the guest is started, we see the warning message in the qemu.log cat /var/log/libvirt/qemu/Hari_compact_mode.log ---- ---- ---- 2018-03-28T07:45:18.370804Z qemu-system-ppc64: -chardev pty,id=charserial0: char device redirected to /dev/pts/2 (label charserial0) 2018-03-28T07:45:18.500173Z qemu-system-ppc64: System page size 0x40000000 is not enabled in page_size_mask (0x11000). Performance may be slow Leonardo/Breno, Is it possible we can request canonical to backport the below commit into Ubuntu 18.04 level ? https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/30f79dc13f116a79ff45d37ad0f5c035012064a7
2019-02-05 10:09:55 Frank Heimes qemu (Ubuntu Bionic): status Triaged In Progress
2019-02-05 10:09:58 Frank Heimes qemu (Ubuntu Cosmic): status Triaged In Progress
2019-02-05 19:28:54 Brian Murray qemu (Ubuntu Cosmic): status In Progress Fix Committed
2019-02-05 19:28:56 Brian Murray bug added subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team
2019-02-05 19:28:58 Brian Murray bug added subscriber SRU Verification
2019-02-05 19:29:02 Brian Murray tags architecture-ppc64le bugnameltc-166118 qemu-19.04 severity-medium targetmilestone-inin18043 architecture-ppc64le bugnameltc-166118 qemu-19.04 severity-medium targetmilestone-inin18043 verification-needed verification-needed-cosmic
2019-02-07 09:24:01 Christian Ehrhardt  tags architecture-ppc64le bugnameltc-166118 qemu-19.04 severity-medium targetmilestone-inin18043 verification-needed verification-needed-cosmic architecture-ppc64le bugnameltc-166118 qemu-19.04 severity-medium targetmilestone-inin18043 verification-done verification-done-cosmic
2019-02-14 16:23:53 Launchpad Janitor qemu (Ubuntu Cosmic): status Fix Committed Fix Released
2019-02-14 16:24:07 Łukasz Zemczak removed subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team
2019-02-18 11:30:07 Manoj Iyer qemu (Ubuntu Bionic): assignee Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)
2019-02-25 12:10:45 Łukasz Zemczak qemu (Ubuntu Bionic): status In Progress Fix Committed
2019-02-25 12:10:48 Łukasz Zemczak bug added subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team
2019-02-25 12:10:51 Łukasz Zemczak tags architecture-ppc64le bugnameltc-166118 qemu-19.04 severity-medium targetmilestone-inin18043 verification-done verification-done-cosmic architecture-ppc64le bugnameltc-166118 qemu-19.04 severity-medium targetmilestone-inin18043 verification-done-cosmic verification-needed verification-needed-bionic
2019-02-25 12:40:34 Frank Heimes ubuntu-power-systems: status In Progress Fix Committed
2019-02-25 15:38:33 Christian Ehrhardt  tags architecture-ppc64le bugnameltc-166118 qemu-19.04 severity-medium targetmilestone-inin18043 verification-done-cosmic verification-needed verification-needed-bionic architecture-ppc64le bugnameltc-166118 qemu-19.04 severity-medium targetmilestone-inin18043 verification-done verification-done-bionic verification-done-cosmic
2019-03-04 16:41:31 Launchpad Janitor qemu (Ubuntu Bionic): status Fix Committed Fix Released
2019-03-04 16:53:59 Frank Heimes ubuntu-power-systems: status Fix Committed Fix Released