Move some kernel modules to the main kernel package

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== Comment: #0 - Breno Henrique Leitao <email address hidden> - 2016-10-20 08:51:24 ==
Hello Canonical,

There are important kernel modules that are required on POWER systems, and they are currently on the linux-image-extra packages.

So, in this case, every Power system needs to install the -extra package, which makes the -extra package required.

My suggestion is to add these important modules to the main archive, so, we do not require the installation of the -extra package.

We are working on the full list of packages, but I would like to anticipate these modules:

01. lpfc
02. qla2xxx
03. be2net
04. bnx2x
05. i40e
06. igb
07. ixgbe
08. cxl
09. cxlflash
10. jsm
11. ohci-platform
12. xhci
13. aacraid
14. ipr
15. megaraid_sas
16. mpt3sas
17. powernv-rng
18. ipmi_powernv
19. leds-powernv
20. ibmpowernv
21. opal-prd
22. powernv_flash
23. nx-compress-powernv
24. vfio (all modules: vfio.ko, vfio-pci.ko, vfio_iommu_spapr_tce.ko, vfio_virqfd.ko, vfio_spapr_eeh.ko)

*Notice*
The driver "qlge" is presented in the preliminary list but it's not necessary.

Thanks in advance,

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2016-November/081023.html

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

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-yakkety' to 'verification-done-yakkety'. If the problem still exists, change the tag 'verification-needed-yakkety' to 'verification-failed-yakkety'.

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!

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

Marking verification-done-yakkety. Spot checking the resulting deb shows that at least ohci-platform, cxlflash, ibmpowernv, and powernv_flash are now included in the generic package.

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------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2016-12-12 15:54 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #9)
> Marking verification-done-yakkety. Spot checking the resulting deb shows
> that at least ohci-platform, cxlflash, ibmpowernv, and powernv_flash are now
> included in the generic package.

We experimented the kernel but some modules aren't included - we might need some more.
We're on discussion on which of them are necessary, but as for now, I can say at least the modules kvm_hv and kvm_pr are not included and are necessary.

Will update here soon with more news.
Thanks,

Guilherme

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

kvm_hv and kvm_pr do not appear to be module names in the 4.8 kernel, nor were they included in the Bug Description list.

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------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2016-12-13 15:01 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #13)
> kvm_hv and kvm_pr do not appear to be module names in the 4.8 kernel, nor
> were they included in the Bug Description list.

You're right, we didn't include them at first sight - I'm sorry, my bad.
But they are modules - found them on /lib/modules, in 4.8.0-30 kernel directory:

# find . | grep kvm
./kernel/arch/powerpc/kvm
./kernel/arch/powerpc/kvm/kvm.ko
./kernel/arch/powerpc/kvm/kvm-pr.ko
./kernel/arch/powerpc/kvm/kvm-hv.ko

Will post a 2nd round of modules to be included in main kernel package soon - guess this should be kept verification-need until them, if possible, or some other more accurate state.

Thanks,

Guilherme

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2016-12-13 15:04 EDT-------
Ohh...now I see. I said "kvm_{pr, hv}" whereas the correct is kvm-{pr, hv}.
Apologies!

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

Duh! I should have thought of looking for kvm-{pr,hv} myself. I did think it a bit strange that I couldn't find them.

[Luis Henriques (henrix)]

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-xenial' to 'verification-done-xenial'. If the problem still exists, change the tag 'verification-needed-xenial' to 'verification-failed-xenial'.

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!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.9.0-11.12

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linux (4.9.0-11.12) zesty; urgency=low

  * Miscellaneous Ubuntu changes
    - UBUNTU: SAUCE: Add '-fno-pie -no-pie' to cflags for x86 selftests
    - UBUNTU: SAUCE: (no-up) aufs: for v4.9-rc1, support setattr_prepare()

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * rebase to v4.9

 -- Tim Gardner <email address hidden> Mon, 12 Dec 2016 06:40:40 -0700

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.4.0-57.78

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linux (4.4.0-57.78) xenial; urgency=low

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1648867

  * Miscellaneous Ubuntu changes
    - SAUCE: Do not build the xr-usb-serial driver for s390

linux (4.4.0-56.77) xenial; urgency=low

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1648867

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1648579

  * CONFIG_NR_CPUS=256 is too low (LP: #1579205)
    - [Config] Increase the NR_CPUS to 512 for amd64 to support systems with a
      large number of cores.

  * NVMe drives in Amazon AWS instance fail to initialize (LP: #1648449)
    - SAUCE: (no-up) NVMe: only setup MSIX once

linux (4.4.0-55.76) xenial; urgency=low

  [ Luis Henriques ]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1648503

  * NVMe driver accidentally reverted to use GSI instead of MSIX (LP: #1647887)
    - (fix) NVMe: restore code to always use MSI/MSI-x interrupts

linux (4.4.0-54.75) xenial; urgency=low

  [ Luis Henriques ]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1648017

  * Update hio driver to 2.1.0.28 (LP: #1646643)
    - SAUCE: hio: update to Huawei ES3000_V2 (2.1.0.28)

  * linux: Enable live patching for all supported architectures (LP: #1633577)
    - [Config] CONFIG_LIVEPATCH=y for s390x

  * Botched backport breaks level triggered EOIs in QEMU guests with --machine
    kernel_irqchip=split (LP: #1644394)
    - kvm/irqchip: kvm_arch_irq_routing_update renaming split

  * Xenial update to v4.4.35 stable release (LP: #1645453)
    - x86/cpu/AMD: Fix cpu_llc_id for AMD Fam17h systems
    - KVM: x86: fix missed SRCU usage in kvm_lapic_set_vapic_addr
    - KVM: Disable irq while unregistering user notifier
    - fuse: fix fuse_write_end() if zero bytes were copied
    - mfd: intel-lpss: Do not put device in reset state on suspend
    - can: bcm: fix warning in bcm_connect/proc_register
    - i2c: mux: fix up dependencies
    - kbuild: add -fno-PIE
    - scripts/has-stack-protector: add -fno-PIE
    - x86/kexec: add -fno-PIE
    - kbuild: Steal gcc's pie from the very beginning
    - ext4: sanity check the block and cluster size at mount time
    - crypto: caam - do not register AES-XTS mode on LP units
    - drm/amdgpu: Attach exclusive fence to prime exported bo's. (v5)
    - clk: mmp: pxa910: fix return value check in pxa910_clk_init()
    - clk: mmp: pxa168: fix return value check in pxa168_clk_init()
    - clk: mmp: mmp2: fix return value check in mmp2_clk_init()
    - rtc: omap: Fix selecting external osc
    - iwlwifi: pcie: fix SPLC structure parsing
    - mfd: core: Fix device reference leak in mfd_clone_cell
    - uwb: fix device reference leaks
    - PM / sleep: fix device reference leak in test_suspend
    - PM / sleep: don't suspend parent when async child suspend_{noirq, late}
      fails
    - IB/mlx4: Check gid_index return value
    - IB/mlx4: Fix create CQ error flow
    - IB/mlx5: Use cache line size to select CQE stride
    - IB/mlx5: Fix fatal error dispatching
    - IB/core: Avoid unsigned int overflow in sg_alloc_table
    - IB/uverbs: Fix leak of XRC target QPs
    - IB/cm: Mark stale CM id's whenever the mad agent was unregistered
    - netfilter: nft_dynset: fix element timeou...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.8.0-32.34

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linux (4.8.0-32.34) yakkety; urgency=low

  [ Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo ]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1649358

  * Vulnerability picked up from 4.8.10 stable kernel (LP: #1648662)
    - net: handle no dst on skb in icmp6_send

linux (4.8.0-31.33) yakkety; urgency=low

  [ Luis Henriques ]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1648034

  * Update hio driver to 2.1.0.28 (LP: #1646643)
    - SAUCE: hio: update to Huawei ES3000_V2 (2.1.0.28)

  * Yakkety update to v4.8.11 stable release (LP: #1645421)
    - x86/cpu/AMD: Fix cpu_llc_id for AMD Fam17h systems
    - KVM: x86: fix missed SRCU usage in kvm_lapic_set_vapic_addr
    - KVM: Disable irq while unregistering user notifier
    - arm64: KVM: pmu: Fix AArch32 cycle counter access
    - KVM: arm64: Fix the issues when guest PMCCFILTR is configured
    - ftrace: Ignore FTRACE_FL_DISABLED while walking dyn_ftrace records
    - ftrace: Add more checks for FTRACE_FL_DISABLED in processing ip records
    - genirq: Use irq type from irqdata instead of irqdesc
    - fuse: fix fuse_write_end() if zero bytes were copied
    - IB/rdmavt: rdmavt can handle non aligned page maps
    - IB/hfi1: Fix rnr_timer addition
    - mfd: intel-lpss: Do not put device in reset state on suspend
    - mfd: stmpe: Fix RESET regression on STMPE2401
    - can: bcm: fix warning in bcm_connect/proc_register
    - gpio: do not double-check direction on sleeping chips
    - ALSA: usb-audio: Fix use-after-free of usb_device at disconnect
    - ALSA: hda - add a new condition to check if it is thinkpad
    - ALSA: hda - Fix mic regression by ASRock mobo fixup
    - i2c: mux: fix up dependencies
    - i2c: i2c-mux-pca954x: fix deselect enabling for device-tree
    - Disable the __builtin_return_address() warning globally after all
    - kbuild: add -fno-PIE
    - scripts/has-stack-protector: add -fno-PIE
    - x86/kexec: add -fno-PIE
    - kbuild: Steal gcc's pie from the very beginning
    - ext4: sanity check the block and cluster size at mount time
    - ARM: dts: imx53-qsb: Fix regulator constraints
    - crypto: caam - do not register AES-XTS mode on LP units
    - powerpc/64: Fix setting of AIL in hypervisor mode
    - drm/amdgpu: Attach exclusive fence to prime exported bo's. (v5)
    - drm/i915: Refresh that status of MST capable connectors in ->detect()
    - drm/i915: Assume non-DP++ port if dvo_port is HDMI and there's no AUX ch
      specified in the VBT
    - virtio-net: drop legacy features in virtio 1 mode
    - clk: mmp: pxa910: fix return value check in pxa910_clk_init()
    - clk: mmp: pxa168: fix return value check in pxa168_clk_init()
    - clk: mmp: mmp2: fix return value check in mmp2_clk_init()
    - clk: imx: fix integer overflow in AV PLL round rate
    - rtc: omap: Fix selecting external osc
    - iwlwifi: pcie: fix SPLC structure parsing
    - iwlwifi: pcie: mark command queue lock with separate lockdep class
    - iwlwifi: mvm: fix netdetect starting/stopping for unified images
    - iwlwifi: mvm: fix d3_test with unified D0/D3 images
    - iwlwifi: mvm: wake the wait queue when the RX sync counter is zero
    - mfd: cor...

[Breno Leitão (breno-leitao)]

Thanks for having this fixed.

In the meantime, we found some other important modules that are necessary for ppc64el, thus, we would like to include it on the main kernel package also (other than on -extra).

We will open a new bug with these new modules.