[SRU][Bionic][PATCH 0/5] Fixes for LP1799184 [v2]

[Stefan Bader]

On 02.11.18 20:29, Frank Heimes wrote:
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1799184
> 
> == SRU Justification ==
> 
> 'APQN tags in the zcrypt device driver are required to support deterministic
> driver binding'
> With the introduction of KVM hw crypto virtualization (on s390x) the driver
> bound to an AP queue device is no longer unique determined.
> Therefore a deterministic hot plugging semantics of AP queues that may be bound
> to multiple drivers is needed.
> With the three listed commits here it will be possible to configure an AP queue
> (APQN) as being bound to a particular driver even if the associate hw gets
> intermittently lost and reconnected.
> 
> == Fix ==
> 
> ac2b96f351d7d222 ("s390/zcrypt: code beautify")
> 7e0bdbe5c21cb831 ("s390/zcrypt: AP bus support for alternate driver(s)")
> 3d8f60d38e249f98 ("s390/zcrypt: hex string mask improvements for apmask and aqmask")
> 
> pre-reqs:
> 2c957a8ad45 ("s390/zcrypt: remove unused functions and declarations")
> 4a07750ba8f3f ("s390/zcrypt: Show load of cards and queues in sysfs")
> 
> == Regression Potential ==
> 
> Llow. because:
> - There are quite some changes, but everything is limited to s390/zcrypt, means:
>    arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/*
>    and
>    drivers/s390/crypto/*
> - So everything is s390x specific.
> - And larger parts of the changes are beautifications.
> - It's all upstream accepted in 4.19
> - The code is already successfully test, integrated and running in cosmic.

The main question remains why support for a new feature has to be pulled into a
stable/released kernel version and is not done via HWE kernels. I would at least
like to see some effort being made to come up with good reasons.

-Stefan

> 
> == Test Case ==
> 
> On an LPAR that has access to an CryptoExpress card,
> execute the 'lszcrypt --verbose'
> and check availability of: 
> /sys/bus/ap/apmask
> General test and verification was btw. also done by IBM.
> Please notice that the code already landed in cosmic.
> 
> 


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