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This bug was fixed in the package blktrace -
1.1.0-2+deb9u1ubuntu0.16.04.1

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blktrace (1.1.0-2+deb9u1ubuntu0.16.04.1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Fix failure when CPUs are offline (LP: #1827318)
    If one or more CPUs are offline then currently blktrace breaks
    because it detects the number of CPUs based on the number of
    CPUs rather than the number of online CPUs. Requires two upstream
    blktrace fixes to fully address this issue
    - 80c4041b2e7a7d5 ("blktrace: Use number of online CPUs")
    - d045a704a378b90 ("blktrace: Add support for sparse CPU numbers")

 -- Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  Wed, 22 May 2019 13:22:31
+0100

** Changed in: blktrace (Ubuntu Xenial)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

** Changed in: blktrace (Ubuntu Bionic)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  ubuntu_blktrace_smoke_test failed on Bionic P9

Status in ubuntu-kernel-tests:
  Fix Released
Status in The Ubuntu-power-systems project:
  Fix Committed
Status in blktrace package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in blktrace source package in Xenial:
  Fix Released
Status in blktrace source package in Bionic:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  == SRU justification [Xenial, Bionic] ==

  Running blktrace on systems where CPUs are offlined such that:

  1. sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN) < sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) and/or
  2. CPU 0..sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN) - 1 is offline

  ..causes blktrace to fail with an error such as:

  FAILED to start thread on CPU 156: 22/Invalid argument
  FAILED to start thread on CPU 157: 22/Invalid argument
  FAILED to start thread on CPU 158: 22/Invalid argument
  ..
  etc

  == Test case ==

  Run blktrace on a system that has  sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN) <
  sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF).  It will break with the invalid
  argument error for sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN) <= CPU <
  sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN).

  With the fix, blktrace on these systems will work find and the ubuntu
  blktrace regresssion test will also pass.

  == The Fix(es) ==

  commit 80c4041b2e7a7d5afb75df563bf51bb27773c095
  Author: Abutalib Aghayev <agayev@xxxxxxxxx>
  Date: Tue Feb 9 08:17:50 2016 -0700

      blktrace: Use number of online CPUs

  the above fix addresses the case where the number of online cpus is
  less than the number of cpus configured.

  commit d045a704a378b9041ebe3d60c497a5656a79d439
  Author: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
  Date: Thu Jan 26 11:23:53 2017 +0100

      blktrace: Add support for sparse CPU numbers

  the above commit fixes the case where one or more CPUs
  0..sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN) is offline causing sparse CPU
  numbering.

  == Regression Potential ==

  Small, the fixes have been in blktrace since 2017 and have had no
  subsequent fixes so the fixes look stable.  The fixes are designed to
  fix this specific issue as seen in the bug. The fixes adjust the
  number of CPUs accounted for by blktrace; at worst the fixes could
  break blktrace.

  
  ----------------

  This issue could be found on 4.15 / 4.18 / 5.0 Bionic.
  Investigation show this was caused by a CPU offline issue for this node "baltar" (bug 1827335) and can be reproduced on another P9 node "bobone"

  Combined with the issue to the blktrace itself, (Upstream bug for
  blktrace attempting to operate on offline CPUs:
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1321875) the test failed.

  $ sudo ./ubuntu_blktrace_smoke_test.sh
  PASSED (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE=y in /boot/config-4.15.0-48-generic)

  Using block device /dev/loop0 for path /home/ubuntu/autotest-client-
  tests/ubuntu_blktrace_smoke_test/mnt

  Test regime:
    dd performing 65536 1K block writes
    looking for at least 1024 blktrace events

  Thu May  2 03:45:41 UTC 2019: blktrace starting
  Thu May  2 03:45:41 UTC 2019: dd starting
  FAILED to start thread on CPU 156: 22/Invalid argument
  FAILED to start thread on CPU 157: 22/Invalid argument
  FAILED to start thread on CPU 158: 22/Invalid argument
  FAILED to start thread on CPU 159: 22/Invalid argument
  Thu May  2 03:45:45 UTC 2019: dd stopped
  Thu May  2 03:45:45 UTC 2019: waiting for 10 seconds
  Thu May  2 03:45:55 UTC 2019: blktrace being terminated
  Thu May  2 03:45:55 UTC 2019: blktrace terminated
  Thu May  2 03:45:56 UTC 2019: blktrace data parsed

  ./ubuntu_blktrace_smoke_test.sh: line 237: [: -eq: unary operator expected
  ./ubuntu_blktrace_smoke_test.sh: line 240: [: -eq: unary operator expected
  FAILED (expecting at least 1024 block traces events from the dd process, got 0)
  FAILED (expecting at least 1024 block read traces events, got 0)
  FAILED (expecting at least 1024 block write traces events, got 0)

  Summary: 1 passed, 3 failed

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