[Bug 1417797] Comment bridged from LTC Bugzilla

Tue Feb 10 15:11:15 UTC 2015

------- Comment From nfonteno at us.ibm.com 2015-02-10 15:01 EDT-------
*** Bug 121628 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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Title:
  Fix DLPAR problem on Power8

Status in powerpc-utils package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Canonical,

  Please DLPAR is failing currently on Ubuntu 15.04 on Power.  with the
  following error:

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  Unable to decrease/increase the memory value giving below error:

  The dynamic removal of memory resources failed: The operating system prevented all of the requested memory from being removed. Amount of memory removed: 0 MB of 3072 MB. The detailed output of the OS operation follows:
  Validating Memory DLPAR capability...yes.
  Could not gather LMB (logical memory block information.
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  The patch that fixes it is already available upstream with
  http://sourceforge.net/p/powerpc-utils/powerpc-
  utils/ci/0591990977d4e39fbefbe051a5fa4a11ded6f9e6/.

  Please, cherry pick it for Ubuntu 15.04

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