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[Dimitri John Ledkov <launchpad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

marking qemu package tasks to affect xenial series only then.

** Also affects: qemu (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided => Critical

** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur) => (unassigned)

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Title:
  Backport spectre/meltdown fixes on qemu for ppc64 into 16.04 and
  possibly 14.04 LTS releases

Status in The Ubuntu-power-systems project:
  Incomplete
Status in The Ubuntu-power-systems project ubuntu-16.04 series:
  New
Status in qemu package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in qemu source package in Xenial:
  New

Bug description:
  == Comment: #0 - Satheesh Rajendran <satheera@xxxxxxxxxx> - 2018-04-19 04:26:51 ==
  ---Problem Description---
  Backport spectre/meltdown fixes on qemu for ppc64 into all LTS releases
   
  Contact Information = satheera@xxxxxxxxxx 
   
  ---uname output---
  -
   
  Machine Type = power8,power9 
   
  ---Debugger---
  A debugger is not configured
   
  ---Steps to Reproduce---
   For pseries guests there are 3 tri-state -machine options/capabilities relating to Spectre/Meltdown mitigation: cap-cfpc, cap-sbbc, cap-ibs, which each correspond to a set of host machine capabilities advertised by the KVM kernel module in new/patched host kernels that can be used to mitigate various aspects of Spectre/Meltdown:

  cap-cfpc: Cache Flush on Privilege Change
  cap-sbbc: Speculation Barrier Bounds Checking
  cap-ibs: Indirect Branch Serialisation

  Details can be found here https://www.qemu.org/2018/02/14/qemu-2-11-1
  -and-spectre-update/

  Needed qemu commits:

  cb931c2108 target/ppc: Check mask when setting cap_ppc_safe_indirect_branch
  4f5b039d2b ppc/spapr-caps: Disallow setting workaround for spapr-cap-ibs
  8c5909c419 ppc/spapr-caps: Change migration macro to take full spapr-cap name
  c59704b254 target/ppc/spapr: Add H-Call H_GET_CPU_CHARACTERISTICS
  4be8d4e7d9 target/ppc/spapr_caps: Add new tristate cap safe_indirect_branch
  09114fd817 target/ppc/spapr_caps: Add new tristate cap safe_bounds_check
  8f38eaf8f9 target/ppc/spapr_caps: Add new tristate cap safe_cache
  6898aed77f target/ppc/spapr_caps: Add support for tristate spapr_capabilities
  8acc2ae5e9 target/ppc/kvm: Add cap_ppc_safe_[cache/bounds_check/indirect_branch]


  Optional commits to introduce a machine type variant pseries-<release>-sxxm, when used would set/enable the three machine capabilities explained above automatically, if host is capable(host kernel is supported). Bug 166426
  813f3cf655 ppc/spapr-caps: Define the pseries-2.12-sxxm machine type
  c76c0d3090 ppc/spapr-caps: Convert cap-ibs to custom spapr-cap
  aaf265ffde ppc/spapr-caps: Convert cap-sbbc to custom spapr-cap
  f27aa81e72 ppc/spapr-caps: Convert cap-cfpc to custom spapr-cap
  87175d1bc5 ppc/spapr-caps: Add support for custom spapr_capabilities

  
   
  Userspace tool common name: qemu-kvm 
   
  The userspace tool has the following bit modes: both 

  Userspace rpm: qemu-kvm

  Userspace tool obtained from project website:  na 
   
  *Additional Instructions for satheera@xxxxxxxxxx:
  -Attach ltrace and strace of userspace application.

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