------- Comment From heinz-werner_se...@de.ibm.com 2017-08-24 08:39 EDT-------
IBM Bugzilla status: closed-> available with kernel 4.11 in artfiul

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Title:
  [17.10 FEAT] Architecture-conforming PGID generation

Status in Ubuntu on IBM z Systems:
  Fix Released
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  All non-Linux z Systems operating systems implement a "New" format for
  PGID generation:

  New Path Group Identifier Format (11 bytes)                            
  -------------------------------------------------------------------------
  | xxyyzyyy| CSSID   | LPAR id |CPU serial #|CPU model|TOD Clock         |
  -------------------------------------------------------------------------
  1         2         3         4            6         8                 11
                                                                         
  where xx = 00 means old PGID format                                    
             10 means new PGID format                                    
             01 reserved for future use                                  
             11 reserved for future use                                  
        z = 1 means PGID was created by the hipervisor (VM)             

  Linux makes use of the same format, with the exception of the CSSID
  field. Linux stores the effective CSSID (always 0 for non-MCSS-E
  systems), whereas all other operating systems store the real CSSID.
  While this difference does not have an immediate functional effect,
  with mechanisms like Query Host Access to Volume support, PGIDs are
  now a user-visible data point and using the correct CSSID field helps
  in identifying hosts via their PGID in case of problems.

  This item is about changing the Linux PGID generation code to query
  the actual CSSID of a subchannel, and to use that CSSID in the
  generation of Linux-provided PGIDs. The real CSSID can be obtained
  e.g. using the Store Domain Config Attributes List CHSC. There may be
  other places where the real CSSID information associated with a
  CHPID/subchannel may be useful (e.g. SysFS, lscss).

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