Hello stable kernel maintainers,
On 03/07/2017 12:35 AM, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
Mauricio> Please flag this patch for stable.
Mauricio> This patch resolves a serious problem on IBM Power systems at
Mauricio> least.
Both patches are already upstream so I can't tag them for stable. Either
you or James should mail sta...@vger.kernel.org and request for the
patches to be queued up.
Can this commit be included on stable v4.4+ , please? (in Linus tree)
8ea73db486cda442f0671f4bc9c03a76be398a28 "scsi: lpfc: Correct WQ
creation for pagesize"
Thanks!
For documentation purposes, the resolved issue is described on [1].
Following is the rationale for the stable kernel version asked for, in
case Broadcom/others would like to discuss/contribute.
These are the 3 commits which introduced the lines changed by the
desired fix commit
0c651878ba3018bb4bbfa2ccd0a876bebb618768 "[SCSI] lpfc 8.3.41: Fixed
support for 128 byte WQEs"
5a6f133eea2d0b4f8f75367b803fef0f03acf268 "[SCSI] lpfc 8.3.22: Add
new mailbox command and new BSG fix"
c31098cef5e091e22a02ff255f911e0ad71cc393 "[SCSI] lpfc 8.3.23: Fixes
related to new hardware"
So, checking the oldest release git tag which contains the most recent
commit (so the fix applies cleanly)
$ git tag --contains 0c651878ba3018bb4bbfa2ccd0a876bebb618768 |
grep -v rc | sort -V
v3.12
<...>
v4.10
And it is cherry-picked/applies cleanly on v3.12:
$ git checkout -b lpfc-v3.12 v3.12
Switched to a new branch 'lpfc-v3.12'
$ git cherry-pick 8ea73db486cda442f0671f4bc9c03a76be398a28
[lpfc-v3.12 c2b0912e6135] scsi: lpfc: Correct WQ creation for pagesize
Author: James Smart <jsmart2...@gmail.com>
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
However, v3.12 seems too old to go back, and it's unclear whether there
was any problem actually reported on these older kernel releases, or
whether the hardware/configuration that reproduces this problem is
supported on v3.12 at all.
On PowerPC (which is directly affected by the fix, as at least IBM
Power servers uses a 64k page size by default on most distros), this
fix is probably only required on v4.4+, so to cover a distro for which
Broadcom doesn't ship inbox drivers to (w/ fix included).
So, I'll ask it for stable v4.4+, and Broadcom/others can expand the
range if they see fit/required.
[1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg105886.html
cheers,
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Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
IBM Linux Technology Center
