ACK: [B][SRU][PATCH 0/1] s390/early: improve machine detection
Khaled Elmously
khalid.elmously at canonical.com
Tue May 28 15:56:56 UTC 2019
On 2019-05-27 14:39:30 , Po-Hsu Lin wrote:
> == Justification ==
> The s390x early machine detection code check will set all the uknown
> hypervisors to z/VM, this will cause crash for any non KVM, z/VM
> system.
>
> == Fixes ==
> 03aa047e (s390/early: improve machine detection)
> Patch can be cherry-picked into Bionic kernel.
>
> Instead of setting all the other hypervisors to z/VM, it will only set
> MACHINE_FLAG_VM if it matches the case.
>
> == Tests ==
> A test kernel could be found here:
> https://people.canonical.com/~phlin/kernel/lp-1829972-s390x-early/
>
> Boot tested on a s390x KVM node and verified by IBM as well.
>
> == Regression Potential ==
> Low, this just improves the detection logic and the changes are
> specific to s390x.
>
> Christian Borntraeger (1):
> s390/early: improve machine detection
>
> arch/s390/kernel/early.c | 4 ++--
> arch/s390/kernel/setup.c | 2 ++
> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
Acked-by: Khalid Elmously <khalid.elmously at canonical.com>
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