ACK / APPLIED[B]: [SRU][Artful][Bionic][PATCH 0/1] KVM: s390: wire up bpb feature
Seth Forshee
seth.forshee at canonical.com
Sat Feb 3 17:23:30 UTC 2018
On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 05:45:45PM -0500, Joseph Salisbury wrote:
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1747090
>
> == SRU Justification ==
> Mainline commit 35b3fde6203b9 is a KVM patch for s390x to provide facility
> bits 81 (ppa15) and 82 (bpb). This is required for branch prediction behaviour
> changes.
>
> This is the public bug for SRU. There is also a priave bug report:
> http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1743560
>
> There is a qemu portion to this fix:
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/cover/862801/
>
> This fix is also requred in Xenial, but Xenial requires a prereq commit. The
> Xenial SRU request will be sent separatly.
>
> == Fix ==
> commit 35b3fde6203b932b2b1a5b53b3d8808abc9c4f60
> Author: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger at de.ibm.com>
> Date: Wed Jan 17 14:44:34 2018 +0100
>
> KVM: s390: wire up bpb feature
>
>
> == Regression Potential ==
> Low, this fix is limited to s390.
>
> == Test Case ==
> A test kernel was built with this patch and tested by the original bug reporter.
> The bug reporter states the test kernel resolved the bug.
Limited scope, trivial backports.
Acked-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee at canonical.com>
Applied to bionic/master-next, thanks!
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