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If verification is not done by 5 working days from today, this fix will be dropped from the source code, and this bug will be closed. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you! ** Tags added: verification-needed-utopic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1380432 Title: 24x7 counters: Bug in catalog_read() Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “linux” source package in Trusty: Invalid Status in “linux” source package in Utopic: Fix Committed Status in “linux” source package in Vivid: Fix Released Bug description: SRU Justification: [Impact] When using POWER8 in HV mode one cannot access /sys/bus/event_source/devices/hv_24x7/interface/catalog [Test Case] cp /sys/bus/event_source/devices/hv_24x7/interface/catalog /tmp ls -l /tmp/catalog # this should show a file with a size > 0 [Fix] 56f12bee55d740dc47eed0ca9d5c72cffdffd6cf which is in 3.18-rc1 It is a clean cherry pick into 3.16/3.13. -- ---Problem Description--- 24x7 counters: Bug in catalog_read() ---Additional Hardware Info--- Power8 system with support for 24x7 counters Machine Type = Power8 IBM,9119-MME ---Steps to Reproduce--- cp /sys/bus/event_source/devices/hv_24x7/interface/catalog /tmp ls -l /tmp/catalog Shows a file size 0 for the /tmp/catalog. We recently discovered a bug in the upstream Linux kernel. It was fixed by this patch https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/1/35 and that patch is scheduled to be included in powerpc tree. When it is included, we should back port to Ubuntu 14.10 or next release. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1380432/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
