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This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.4.0-6.21

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linux (4.4.0-6.21) xenial; urgency=low

  [ Tim Gardner ]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1546283

  *  Naples/Zen, NTB Driver  (LP: #1542071)
    - [Config] CONFIG_NTB_AMD=m
    - NTB: Add support for AMD PCI-Express Non-Transparent Bridge

  * [Hyper-V] kernel panic occurs when installing Ubuntu Server x32 (LP: #1495983)
    - SAUCE: storvsc: use small sg_tablesize on x86

  * Enable arm64 emulation of removed ARMv7 instructions (LP: #1545542)
    - [Config] CONFIG_ARMV8_DEPRECATED=y

  * Surelock-GA2:kernel panic/ exception @ pcibios_set_pcie_reset_state+0x118/0x280 + cxl_reset+0x5c/0xc0 (LP: #1545037)
    - powerpc/eeh: Fix stale cached primary bus

  * Miscellaneous Ubuntu changes
    - SAUCE: fs: Add user namesapace member to struct super_block
    - SAUCE: fs: Limit file caps to the user namespace of the super block
    - SAUCE: Smack: Add support for unprivileged mounts from user namespaces
    - SAUCE: block_dev: Support checking inode permissions in lookup_bdev()
    - SAUCE: block_dev: Check permissions towards block device inode when mounting
    - SAUCE: fs: Treat foreign mounts as nosuid
    - SAUCE: selinux: Add support for unprivileged mounts from user namespaces
    - SAUCE: userns: Replace in_userns with current_in_userns
    - SAUCE: Smack: Handle labels consistently in untrusted mounts
    - SAUCE: fs: Check for invalid i_uid in may_follow_link()
    - SAUCE: cred: Reject inodes with invalid ids in set_create_file_as()
    - SAUCE: fs: Refuse uid/gid changes which don't map into s_user_ns
    - SAUCE: fs: Update posix_acl support to handle user namespace mounts
    - SAUCE: fs: Ensure the mounter of a filesystem is privileged towards its inodes
    - SAUCE: fs: Don't remove suid for CAP_FSETID in s_user_ns
    - SAUCE: fs: Allow superblock owner to access do_remount_sb()
    - SAUCE: capabilities: Allow privileged user in s_user_ns to set security.* xattrs
    - SAUCE: fuse: Add support for pid namespaces
    - SAUCE: fuse: Support fuse filesystems outside of init_user_ns
    - SAUCE: fuse: Restrict allow_other to the superblock's namespace or a descendant
    - SAUCE: fuse: Allow user namespace mounts
    - SAUCE: mtd: Check permissions towards mtd block device inode when mounting
    - SAUCE: fs: Update i_[ug]id_(read|write) to translate relative to s_user_ns
    - SAUCE: quota: Convert ids relative to s_user_ns
    - SAUCE: evm: Translate user/group ids relative to s_user_ns when computing HMAC
    - SAUCE: fs: Allow CAP_SYS_ADMIN in s_user_ns to freeze and thaw filesystems
    - SAUCE: quota: Treat superblock owner as privilged
    - SAUCE: ima/evm: Allow root in s_user_ns to set xattrs
    - SAUCE: block_dev: Forbid unprivileged mounting when device is opened for writing
    - SAUCE: ext4: Add support for unprivileged mounts from user namespaces
    - SAUCE: ext4: Add module parameter to enable user namespace mounts
    - SAUCE: fuse: Add module parameter to enable user namespace mounts

  * Miscellaneous upstream changes
    - megaraid: Fix possible NULL pointer deference in mraid_mm_ioctl
    - libahci: Implement the capability to override the generic ahci interrupt handler.
    - ata: Remove the AHCI_HFLAG_EDGE_IRQ support from libahci.
    - ahci_xgene: Implement the workaround to fix the missing of the edge interrupt for the HOST_IRQ_STAT.

 -- Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  Fri, 12 Feb 2016 09:49:05
-0700

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

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Title:
  perf enahancements for ppc64

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in linux source package in Xenial:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  perf kvm stat record/report is not supported on powerpc currently.
  With perf kvm stat record/report analysis of kvm exit events and
  hypervisor calls can be done. The statistics for these events can be
  shown individually for each running VM in the host and can be very
  useful in giving an idea of the performance of a VM under a certain
  workload.

  This can show how many number of KVM exits have happened during a
  certain period of time. Along with the total number of exits, all the
  exits are grouped according to their specific exit reasons. Also,
  frequency for individual exit reasons is shown. Same can be done with
  hypervisor calls too.

  Updating this with two more features :
  - perf intr regs sampling support. Patches are currently in v3.
  https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/11/3/25

  - Guest symbol resolution:
  To enable perf kvm record for powerpc, we need to sample the instruction pointer from kvm guest_exit tracepoint. The patches for this feature are currently being sent.

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