SRU request submitted:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2018-June/093488.html

** Description changed:

+ == SRU Justification ==
+ IBM is requesting these patches in Bionic.  ocxl (opencapi) is a relatively
+ new driver which was added to Ubuntu 18.04; It's specific to POWER9 systems.
+ 
+ == Regression Potential ==
+ Medium.  There are 10 patches, but all are limited to powerpc and the ocxl 
driver.
+ 
+ == Test Case ==
+ A test kernel was built with these patches and tested by IBM.
+ 
+ 
  ---Problem Description---
  Update to ocxl driver
-  
+ 
  ---uname output---
  4.15.0-22-generic
-  
+ 
  ---Additional Hardware Info---
- opencapi adapter needed 
+ opencapi adapter needed
  
-  Machine Type = any POWER9 system 
-  
+  Machine Type = any POWER9 system
+ 
  ---Debugger---
  A debugger is not configured
-  
  
  == Comment: #1 - Frederic Barrat <frederic.bar...@fr.ibm.com> - 2018-06-05 
03:46:00 ==
  ocxl (opencapi) is a relatively new driver which was added to Ubuntu 18.04; 
It's specific to POWER9 systems.
  
  We'd like to add the following 9 commits for Ubuntu 18.04.1:
  
  The following 2 patches are already in the main linux tree:
  474cca5fd894de99afc69274e8b25524ae62d7ee
  misc: ocxl: use put_device() instead of device_unregister()
  
  e7666d046ac0eda535282a5fd3b188f31d0f4afd
  ocxl: Document the OCXL_IOCTL_GET_METADATA IOCTL
  
  The remaining commits are in the powerpc-next tree and will be merged in
  the next merge window (i.e. in a week or so). See
  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git/log/?h=next
  
  819844285ef2b5d15466f5b5062514135ffba06c
  powerpc: Add TIDR CPU feature for POWER9
  
  3449f191ca9be1a6ac9757b8ab55f239092362e5
  powerpc: Use TIDR CPU feature to control TIDR allocation
  
  71cc64a85d8d99936f6851709a07f18c87a0adab
  powerpc: use task_pid_nr() for TID allocation
  
  19df39581ce99eb1fcfb119945810c9c5bc3f8d4
  ocxl: Rename pnv_ocxl_spa_remove_pe to clarify it's action
  
  e948e06fc63a1c1e36ec4c8e5c510b881ff19c26
  ocxl: Expose the thread_id needed for wait on POWER9
  
  02a8e5bc1c06045f36423bd9632ad9f40da18d3f
  ocxl: Add an IOCTL so userspace knows what OCXL features are available
  
  721c551d31fb441ff3be701ad3be14cf6e0aca3f
  ocxl: Document new OCXL IOCTLs
  
  Another commit ID to add to the list (fixes a commit from previous list), 
from the 'next' tree:
  2e5c93d6bb2f7bc17eb82748943a1b9f6b068520
  ocxl: Fix missing unlock on error in afu_ioctl_enable_p9_wait()

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