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------- Comment From brueckner@xxxxxxxxxx 2016-03-16 03:54 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #6)
> @TIM this has nothing to do with PPC. this is s390x request. STFLE sounds
> like a little-endian symbol name.... whereas s390x is big-endian, no?

This is entirely s390x.  The STFLE is an instruction: "STore Facility
List Extented".

------- Comment From brueckner@xxxxxxxxxx 2016-03-16 04:07 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #5)
> How about a backport to v4.4 ? Attempting to cherry-pick caused a conflict
> because the existing macro in the assembler instruction is
> __LC_STFL_FAC_LIST whereas the expected macro is __LC_STFLE_FAC_LIST. My PPC
> assembler foo is weak.

To cleanly apply the required patch, please also apply the below one
first:

commit 76cdd44c2e56ffabc297494c090c6babc8985998
Author: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Tue Nov 24 12:33:07 2015 +0100

s390/facilities: always use lowcore's stfle field for storing facility bits
head.s contains an stfle instruction which stores it result at the
storage location that is assigned to the stfl instruction.
This is currently no problem, since we only care about one double
word. However if the number of double words in the ALS bitfield grows
the current code is not very stable.

E.g. before issuing the stfle command the memory to which it stores
must be cleared, since the instruction may or may not clear memory
contents where no bits are set.

In order to simplify the code a bit always use the storage location
that we reserved for the stfle result.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1555344

Title:
  s390/cpumf: Fix lpp detection

Status in Ubuntu on IBM z Systems:
  New
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in linux source package in Xenial:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  == Comment: #0 - Hendrik Brueckner - 2016-03-09 10:54:54 ==
  Please backport 

  http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux.git/commit/?h=fixes&id=7a76aa95f6f6682db5629449d763251d1c9f8c4e

  The patch is currently in the s390 tree queued for the next merge
  window.  I will attach a patch for convenience.

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