** Description changed:
- Description will follow
+ One of the PCI enhancements on Z15 are the enhanced PCI load/store
+ instructions which can be executed directly from user space code. When
+ these instructions are available and preexisting user space code still
+ uses the old s390_pci_mmio_write/read system calls, the system calls
+ fail with an "Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference in virtual
+ kernel address space" in the kernel. This issue affects distributions
+ which have the enablement for Z15 PCI enhancements and where customers
+ run workloads which accesses PCI adapters from user space, e.g. RDMA
+ applications. To solve this, the system call implementation needs to be
+ enhanced to provide to execute enhanced PCI load/store instructions on
+ behalf of the user space application making use of the mappings into its
+ virtual address space
** Also affects: ubuntu-z-systems
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
[UBUNTU 20.04] s390x/pci: s390_pci_mmio_write/read fail when MIO
instructions are available
Status in Ubuntu on IBM z Systems:
New
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
One of the PCI enhancements on Z15 are the enhanced PCI load/store
instructions which can be executed directly from user space code. When
these instructions are available and preexisting user space code still
uses the old s390_pci_mmio_write/read system calls, the system calls
fail with an "Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference in virtual
kernel address space" in the kernel. This issue affects distributions
which have the enablement for Z15 PCI enhancements and where customers
run workloads which accesses PCI adapters from user space, e.g. RDMA
applications. To solve this, the system call implementation needs to
be enhanced to provide to execute enhanced PCI load/store instructions
on behalf of the user space application making use of the mappings
into its virtual address space
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