** Description changed:
+ SRU Justification
+
+ [Impact]
+
The request is to bring vmci to TOT and back port the following patches into
Ubuntu kernels.
1. fac608138c6136126faadafa5554cc0bbabf3c44 ("VMCI: dma dg: whitespace
formatting change for vmci register defines")
2. e283a0e8b7ea83915e988ed059384af166b444c0 ("VMCI: dma dg: add MMIO access
to registers")
3. eed2298d936087a1c85e0fa6f7170028e4f4fded ("VMCI: dma dg: detect DMA
datagram capability")
4. 8cb520bea1470ca205980fbf030ed1f472f4af2f ("VMCI: dma dg: set OS page
size")
5. cc68f2177fcbfe2dbe5e9514789b96ba5995ec1e ("VMCI: dma dg: register dummy
IRQ handlers for DMA datagrams")
6. 5ee109828e73bbe4213c373988608d8f33e03d78 ("VMCI: dma dg: allocate send
and receive buffers for DMA datagrams")
7. 22aa5c7f323022477b70e044eb00e6bfea9498e8 ("VMCI: dma dg: add support for
DMA datagrams sends")
8. 463713eb6164b6577f8e91447c7745628215531b ("VMCI: dma dg: add support for
DMA datagrams receive")
9. 77e861619baea5a7c934e47fda74b03c0b072aec ("VMCI: Fix some error handling
paths in vmci_guest_probe_device()")
10. c8e9b30ccae605bf1dbeaf03971f9b83f70b928d ("VMCI: Release
notification_bitmap in error path")
11. 5df0e734b8c39598effe0f17e5bd8ff7748a0693 ("VMCI: Check exclusive_vectors
when freeing interrupt 1")
12. 1f7142915d304804a9bd952245fce92786b1b62f ("VMCI: Add support for ARM64")
13. ba03a9bbd17b149c373c0ea44017f35fc2cd0f28 ("VMCI: Release resource if the
work is already queued")
- Thanks,
- Vishnu
+ There is a new version of the VMCI device. Patches #1 to #11 provide
+ support for that, see [1] for some information on what is new. #12 adds
+ arm64 support (we only support the new version of the VMCI device in
+ arm64, but both old and new versions of VMCI device are supported in
+ x86). #13 is a general bugfix. All 13 patches can build on both x86 and
+ arm64.
+
+ [Test Case]
+
+ VMWARE tested
+
+ [Where things could go wrong]
+
+ The VMCI device driver could fail.
** Description changed:
SRU Justification
[Impact]
The request is to bring vmci to TOT and back port the following patches into
Ubuntu kernels.
1. fac608138c6136126faadafa5554cc0bbabf3c44 ("VMCI: dma dg: whitespace
formatting change for vmci register defines")
2. e283a0e8b7ea83915e988ed059384af166b444c0 ("VMCI: dma dg: add MMIO access
to registers")
3. eed2298d936087a1c85e0fa6f7170028e4f4fded ("VMCI: dma dg: detect DMA
datagram capability")
4. 8cb520bea1470ca205980fbf030ed1f472f4af2f ("VMCI: dma dg: set OS page
size")
5. cc68f2177fcbfe2dbe5e9514789b96ba5995ec1e ("VMCI: dma dg: register dummy
IRQ handlers for DMA datagrams")
6. 5ee109828e73bbe4213c373988608d8f33e03d78 ("VMCI: dma dg: allocate send
and receive buffers for DMA datagrams")
7. 22aa5c7f323022477b70e044eb00e6bfea9498e8 ("VMCI: dma dg: add support for
DMA datagrams sends")
8. 463713eb6164b6577f8e91447c7745628215531b ("VMCI: dma dg: add support for
DMA datagrams receive")
9. 77e861619baea5a7c934e47fda74b03c0b072aec ("VMCI: Fix some error handling
paths in vmci_guest_probe_device()")
10. c8e9b30ccae605bf1dbeaf03971f9b83f70b928d ("VMCI: Release
notification_bitmap in error path")
11. 5df0e734b8c39598effe0f17e5bd8ff7748a0693 ("VMCI: Check exclusive_vectors
when freeing interrupt 1")
12. 1f7142915d304804a9bd952245fce92786b1b62f ("VMCI: Add support for ARM64")
13. ba03a9bbd17b149c373c0ea44017f35fc2cd0f28 ("VMCI: Release resource if the
work is already queued")
There is a new version of the VMCI device. Patches #1 to #11 provide
support for that, see [1] for some information on what is new. #12 adds
arm64 support (we only support the new version of the VMCI device in
arm64, but both old and new versions of VMCI device are supported in
x86). #13 is a general bugfix. All 13 patches can build on both x86 and
arm64.
+ [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220203131237.3380-1-jhan...@vmware.com
+
[Test Case]
VMWARE tested
[Where things could go wrong]
The VMCI device driver could fail.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1978145
Title:
Request to back port vmci patches to Ubuntu kernel
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
SRU Justification
[Impact]
The request is to bring vmci to TOT and back port the following patches into
Ubuntu kernels.
1. fac608138c6136126faadafa5554cc0bbabf3c44 ("VMCI: dma dg: whitespace
formatting change for vmci register defines")
2. e283a0e8b7ea83915e988ed059384af166b444c0 ("VMCI: dma dg: add MMIO access
to registers")
3. eed2298d936087a1c85e0fa6f7170028e4f4fded ("VMCI: dma dg: detect DMA
datagram capability")
4. 8cb520bea1470ca205980fbf030ed1f472f4af2f ("VMCI: dma dg: set OS page
size")
5. cc68f2177fcbfe2dbe5e9514789b96ba5995ec1e ("VMCI: dma dg: register dummy
IRQ handlers for DMA datagrams")
6. 5ee109828e73bbe4213c373988608d8f33e03d78 ("VMCI: dma dg: allocate send
and receive buffers for DMA datagrams")
7. 22aa5c7f323022477b70e044eb00e6bfea9498e8 ("VMCI: dma dg: add support for
DMA datagrams sends")
8. 463713eb6164b6577f8e91447c7745628215531b ("VMCI: dma dg: add support for
DMA datagrams receive")
9. 77e861619baea5a7c934e47fda74b03c0b072aec ("VMCI: Fix some error handling
paths in vmci_guest_probe_device()")
10. c8e9b30ccae605bf1dbeaf03971f9b83f70b928d ("VMCI: Release
notification_bitmap in error path")
11. 5df0e734b8c39598effe0f17e5bd8ff7748a0693 ("VMCI: Check exclusive_vectors
when freeing interrupt 1")
12. 1f7142915d304804a9bd952245fce92786b1b62f ("VMCI: Add support for ARM64")
13. ba03a9bbd17b149c373c0ea44017f35fc2cd0f28 ("VMCI: Release resource if the
work is already queued")
There is a new version of the VMCI device. Patches #1 to #11 provide
support for that, see [1] for some information on what is new. #12
adds arm64 support (we only support the new version of the VMCI device
in arm64, but both old and new versions of VMCI device are supported
in x86). #13 is a general bugfix. All 13 patches can build on both
x86 and arm64.
[1]
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220203131237.3380-1-jhan...@vmware.com
[Test Case]
VMWARE tested
[Where things could go wrong]
The VMCI device driver could fail.
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