** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu Xenial)
Assignee: (unassigned) => ChristianEhrhardt (paelzer)
** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu)
Status: In Progress => Fix Released
** Description changed:
[Impact]
- * Some newer Power8 derivates fail to work correctly e.g. Power S822LC
- (8335-GTB)
+ * Some newer Power8 derivates fail to work correctly e.g. Power S822LC
+ (8335-GTB)
- * This is a toleration change (no exploitation) for those HW releases
- following the SRU policy of "For Long Term Support releases we
- regularly want to enable new hardware. Such changes are appropriate
- provided that we can ensure not to affect upgrades on existing
- hardware."
+ * This is a toleration change (no exploitation) for those HW releases
+ following the SRU policy of "For Long Term Support releases we
+ regularly want to enable new hardware. Such changes are appropriate
+ provided that we can ensure not to affect upgrades on existing
+ hardware."
- * Without the Fix that hardware won't run Xenial guests under current
- Xenials Qemu version
+ * Without the Fix that hardware won't run Xenial guests under current
+ Xenials Qemu version
- * The fix lets processors that support it run in PowerISA 2.07
- compatibility mode (plus a few no-op changes as backport
- dependencies)
-
+ * The fix lets processors that support it run in PowerISA 2.07
+ compatibility mode (plus a few no-op changes as backport
+ dependencies)
[Test Case]
- * Run a Xenial Guest in KVM on one of the specific HW revisions being
- affected.
+ * Run a Xenial Guest in KVM on one of the specific HW revisions being
+ affected.
[Regression Potential]
- * Changes are PPC only, so fallout should be contained to that
- * Patches were created by IBM and in Upstream qemu since 2.7
- * The effective change is rather small, only allow different compat
- level on this other cpu class
- * There are a few refactoring changes needed to get the backport done,
- while they should be a no-op that is a regression potential (still
- limited to ppc64el)
+ * I'd rate the potential to regress low for powerpc and next to
+ impossible for other architectures, reasons:
+ * Changes are PPC only, so fallout should be contained to that
+ * Patches and were created by IBM and in Upstream qemu since 2.6
+ * The effective change is rather small, only allow to saner cpu model
+ versions (drop some HW dev trash that was left) and add the new types.
[Other Info]
-
- * Needed for certifying this Hardware for Ubuntu
+ * Needed for certifying this Hardware for Ubuntu
-
- Upon running the virtualization test from the certification test suite, the
kvm guest test fails with the following error:
+ Upon running the virtualization test from the certification test suite,
+ the kvm guest test fails with the following error:
kvm_init_vcpu failed: Invalid argument
This same test works on multiple other IBM Power 8 and Openpower
servers. kvm-ok tells us that kvm virtualization is supported. I have
tried with SMT enabled and disabled. I have tried the latest cloud image
as well as previous onces we had saved. I have tried running the qemu-
system-ppc64 command found below manually with the same error.
The full output from the test is as follows:
Executing KVM Test
DEBUG:root:Starting KVM Test
DEBUG:root:Cloud image location specified:
http://10.1.10.2/cloud/xenial-server-cloudimg-ppc64el-disk1.img.
DEBUG:root:Downloading xenial-server-cloudimg-ppc64el-disk1.img, from
http://10.1.10.2
DEBUG:root:Creating cloud user-data
DEBUG:root:Creating cloud meta-data
I: -input-charset not specified, using utf-8 (detected in locale settings)
Total translation table size: 0
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 331
Total directory bytes: 0
Path table size(bytes): 10
Max brk space used 0
183 extents written (0 MB)
DEBUG:root:Attempting boot for:xenial-server-cloudimg-ppc64el-disk1.img
DEBUG:root:Attaching Cloud config disk
DEBUG:root:Using params:qemu-system-ppc64 -m 1024 -display none -nographic
-net nic -net user,net=10.0.0.0/8,host=10.0.0.1,hostfwd=tcp::2222-:22
-enable-kvm -machine pseries,usb=off -cpu POWER8 -drive
file=xenial-server-cloudimg-ppc64el-disk1.img,if=virtio -drive
file=seed.iso,if=virtio
INFO:root:Storing VM console output in
/home/ubuntu/.cache/plainbox/sessions/canonical-certification-server-2017-01-12T22.19.34.session/CHECKBOX_DATA/virt_debug
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: linux-image-4.4.0-59-generic 4.4.0-59.80
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-59.80-generic 4.4.35
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-59-generic ppc64le
AlsaDevices:
total 0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 1 Jan 12 22:18 seq
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 Jan 12 22:18 timer
AplayDevices: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'aplay'
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.4
Architecture: ppc64el
ArecordDevices: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'arecord'
AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/snd/seq',
'/dev/snd/timer'] failed with exit code 1:
Date: Thu Jan 12 22:45:34 2017
IwConfig: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'iwconfig'
Lsusb:
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 125f:312b A-DATA Technology Co., Ltd. Superior S102
Pro
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046b:ff10 American Megatrends, Inc. Virtual Keyboard
and Mouse
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046b:ff01 American Megatrends, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
PciMultimedia:
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB: 0 astdrmfb
ProcKernelCmdLine: root=UUID=a7ce18b4-4614-485f-9346-b19b0415db3a ro fips=1
ProcLoadAvg: 0.03 0.02 0.08 1/1288 11017
ProcLocks:
1: POSIX ADVISORY WRITE 3709 00:14:665 0 EOF
2: POSIX ADVISORY WRITE 3593 00:14:655 0 EOF
3: POSIX ADVISORY WRITE 1658 00:14:376 0 EOF
4: FLOCK ADVISORY WRITE 3560 00:14:637 0 EOF
5: POSIX ADVISORY WRITE 3571 00:14:640 0 EOF
ProcSwaps:
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/swap.img file 8388544 0 -1
ProcVersion: Linux version 4.4.0-59-generic (buildd@bos01-ppc64el-029) (gcc
version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu/IBM 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4) ) #80-Ubuntu SMP Fri
Jan 6 17:35:59 UTC 2017
RelatedPackageVersions:
linux-restricted-modules-4.4.0-59-generic N/A
linux-backports-modules-4.4.0-59-generic N/A
linux-firmware 1.157.6
RfKill: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'rfkill'
SourcePackage: linux
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
cpu_cores: Number of cores present = 20
cpu_coreson: Number of cores online = 20
cpu_dscr: DSCR is 0
cpu_freq:
min: 3.959 GHz (cpu 79)
max: 3.988 GHz (cpu 81)
avg: 3.974 GHz
cpu_runmode:
Could not retrieve current diagnostics mode,
No kernel interface to firmware
cpu_smt: SMT=8
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Power S822LC (8335-GTB) fails KVM guest cert test with kvm_init_vcpu
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