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Message #96383
[Bug 1401150] Re: Endianness issue in the VPHN topology update code
** Branch linked: lp:ubuntu/trusty-proposed/linux-lts-utopic
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Title:
Endianness issue in the VPHN topology update code
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in linux source package in Trusty:
Fix Committed
Status in linux source package in Utopic:
Fix Committed
Bug description:
SRU Justification:
[Impact]
The current VPHN code assumes the NUMA toplogy updates data are big endian. They are native endian actually since the hypervisor pass them through registers. This has a great performance impact on little endian guests.
[Test Case]
Install NUMA capable power8 machine in LE mode, install LE guest. Measure performance differences in LE guest after applying this patch.
[Fix]
commit 5c9fb1899400096c6818181c525897a31d57e488 upstream
in v3.18-rc2
A fix has been sent to fix the issue:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/396171/
Please pick the following commit from Michael Ellermans's tree:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux.git/commit/?id=5c9fb1899400096c6818181c525897a31d57e488
which reads: "powerpc/vphn: NUMA node code expects big-endian"
Now upstream:
commit 5c9fb1899400096c6818181c525897a31d57e488
Author: Greg Kurz <gkurz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Oct 15 12:42:58 2014 +0200
powerpc/vphn: NUMA node code expects big-endian
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