Disable PAMU on Freescale kernels

Bug #1311738 reported by Tim Gardner
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linux (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Ben Collins
Trusty
Fix Released
Medium
Ben Collins
Utopic
Fix Released
Medium
Ben Collins

Bug Description

In Saucy/v3.11 kernel, we used the PAMU SAUCE patch from Freescale. The current upstreamed PAMU code appears to break fsl-ehci by restricting proper access to memory locations associated with it.

PAMU is an IOMMU extension that protects and prevents access to portions of memory that are known to be reserved for hardware use. This extension is not needed for normal runtime, so rather than allow broken EHCI, let's disbale this until PAMU can be fixed.

This only affects Freescale PowerPC kernel variations.

Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Trusty):
assignee: nobody → Ben Collins (ben-collins)
status: New → In Progress
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Trusty):
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Brad Figg (brad-figg) wrote :

This bug is awaiting verification that the kernel in -proposed solves the problem. Please test the kernel and update this bug with the results. If the problem is solved, change the tag 'verification-needed-trusty' to 'verification-done-trusty'.

If verification is not done by 5 working days from today, this fix will be dropped from the source code, and this bug will be closed.

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you!

tags: added: verification-needed-trusty
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Tim Gardner (timg-tpi) wrote :

Marking verification-done-trusty as this was a config change.

debian.master/config/config.common.ubuntu:# CONFIG_FSL_PAMU is not set

Changed in linux (Ubuntu Trusty):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Utopic):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-done-trusty
removed: verification-needed-trusty
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 3.15.0-1.5

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linux (3.15.0-1.5) utopic; urgency=low

  [ Tim Gardner ]

  * [Config] Add apm-mustang.dtb to kernel-image udeb
 -- Tim Gardner <email address hidden> Mon, 19 May 2014 14:47:42 -0700

Changed in linux (Ubuntu Utopic):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
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This bug was fixed in the package linux - 3.13.0-27.50

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linux (3.13.0-27.50) trusty; urgency=low

  [ Brad Figg ]

  * Revert "rtlwifi: Set the link state"

linux (3.13.0-27.49) trusty; urgency=low

  [ Brad Figg ]

  * Revert "SAUCE: (no-up) HID: rmi: do not stop the device at the end of
    probe"
  * Revert "SAUCE: (no-up) HID: rmi: introduce RMI driver for Synaptics
    touchpads"
  * Revert "[Config] CONFIG_HID_RMI=m"

linux (3.13.0-26.48) trusty; urgency=low

  [ Benjamin Tissoires ]

  * SAUCE: (no-up) HID: rmi: introduce RMI driver for Synaptics touchpads
    - LP: #1305522
  * SAUCE: (no-up) HID: rmi: do not stop the device at the end of probe
    - LP: #1305522

  [ Kamal Mostafa ]

  * Merged back Ubuntu-3.13.0-24.47 security release
  * Revert "n_tty: Fix n_tty_write crash when echoing in raw mode"
    - LP: #1314762
  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1316835

  [ Tim Gardner ]

  * [Config] CONFIG_HID_RMI=m
    - LP: #1305522
  * [Config] CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_NX=n for ppc64el
    - LP: #1314625
  * [Config] CONFIG_ZSWAP=y
    - LP: #1315203
  * Add rpcsec_gss_krb5 to generic inclusion list
    - LP: #769527

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * HID: hidraw: make comment more accurate and nicer
    - LP: #1305522
  * HID: remove hid_get_raw_report in struct hid_device
    - LP: #1305522
  * HID: i2c-hid: implement ll_driver transport-layer callbacks
    - LP: #1305522
  * HID: add inliners for ll_driver transport-layer callbacks
    - LP: #1305522
  * HID: Add transport-driver callbacks to the hid_ll_driver struct
    - LP: #1305522
  * drm/nouveau: fail runtime pm properly.
    - LP: #1313986
  * drm/nouveau: don't suspend/resume display on runtime s/r
    - LP: #1313986
  * n_tty: Fix n_tty_write crash when echoing in raw mode
    - LP: #1314762
    - CVE-2014-0196
  * floppy: ignore kernel-only members in FDRAWCMD ioctl input
    - LP: #1316729
    - CVE-2014-1737
  * floppy: don't write kernel-only members to FDRAWCMD ioctl output
    - LP: #1316735
    - CVE-2014-1738

linux (3.13.0-25.47) trusty; urgency=low

  [ Joseph Salisbury ]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1313868

  [ Adam Lee ]

  * [Config] CONFIG_RTL8723BE=m, CONFIG_RTL8723_COMMON=m
    - LP: #1240940

  [ Alex Hung ]

  * SAUCE: (no-up) dell-led: add mic mute led interface
    - LP: #1308297

  [ Andy Whitcroft ]

  * SAUCE: (no-up) powerpc: Increase COMMAND_LINE_SIZE to 2048 from 512.
    - LP: #1306677

  [ Ben Collins ]

  * [Config] Disable PAMU on Freescale kernels
    - LP: #1311738

  [ Tim Gardner ]

  * Revert "SAUCE: x86, hyperv: bypass the timer_irq_works() check"
    - LP: #1311683
  * SAUCE: (no-up) ALSA: usb-audio: Suppress repetitive debug messages from
    retire_playback_urb()
    - LP: #1305133
  * SAUCE: (no-up) 'BUG:' message unnecessarily triggers kerneloops
    - LP: #1305480
  * [Config] CONFIG_POWERNV_CPUFREQ=m
    - LP: #1309576
  * [Config] CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_ONDEMAND=y for ppc64el
    - LP: #1309576
  * [Config] CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE=n for arm64
    - LP: #1309221
  * [Config] CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM=y
    - LP: #1309586
  * [Config] CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y for ppc64el
    - LP: #1312783

  [ Upstream Kernel Change...

Changed in linux (Ubuntu Trusty):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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