Add iwlwifi firmware monitor support in utopic

Bug #1399440 reported by Seth Forshee
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linux (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Seth Forshee
Utopic
Fix Released
Low
Seth Forshee

Bug Description

SRU Justification:

Impact: These patches do not fix a bug. Instead, they help Intel collect data from devices which are experiencing errors due to bugs in the firmware which will help them fix these bugs.

Test Case: I have tested these patches to verify that I did not observe any regressions with the affected hardware and to verify the functionality of the firmware monitor support.

Regression Potential: The firmware monitor support defaults to being disabled and is only enabled when the fw_monitor=1 option is passed to iwlwifi, which helps to limit the possibility of regressions under normal use. I have also reviewed and tested the patches without finding any regressions.

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These were introduced in 3.17 and then backported to 3.16 by Intel [1]. They aren't upstream stable material, but since Intel wireless is probably the most widely used wireless hardware among Ubuntu users it makes sense for us to take the patches if they will help Intel fix bugs in their firmware.

[1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/129744

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Brad Figg (brad-figg) wrote :

This bug is awaiting verification that the kernel in -proposed solves the problem. Please test the kernel and update this bug with the results. If the problem is solved, change the tag 'verification-needed-utopic' to 'verification-done-utopic'.

If verification is not done by 5 working days from today, this fix will be dropped from the source code, and this bug will be closed.

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you!

tags: added: verification-needed-utopic
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Seth Forshee (sforshee) wrote :

Verified that the support is present in the proposed kernel and disabled by default, and that wireless does not seem to regress in the proposed kernel.

tags: added: verification-done-utopic
removed: verification-needed-utopic
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
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This bug was fixed in the package linux - 3.16.0-29.39

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linux (3.16.0-29.39) utopic; urgency=low

  [ Kamal Mostafa ]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1402822

  [ AceLan Kao ]

  * SAUCE: Add use_native_backlight quirk for HP ProBook 6570b
    - LP: #1359010

  [ Andy Whitcroft ]

  * Revert "SAUCE: (no-up) arm64: optimized copy_to_user and copy_from_user
    assembly code"
    - LP: #1398596
  * [Config] updateconfigs to balance CONFIG_SCOM_DEBUGFS

  [ Paolo Pisati ]

  * [Config] armhf: VIRTIO_[BALLOON|MMIO]=y

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * Revert "arm64: Make default dma_ops to be noncoherent"
    - LP: #1386490
  * Revert "percpu: free percpu allocation info for uniprocessor system"
    - LP: #1401079
  * ath3k: Add support of MCI 13d3:3408 bt device
    - LP: #1395465
  * x86: kvm: use alternatives for VMCALL vs. VMMCALL if kernel text is
    read-only
    - LP: #1379340
  * cpufreq: Allow stop CPU callback to be used by all cpufreq drivers
    - LP: #1397928
  * cpufreq: powernv: Set the pstate of the last hotplugged out cpu in
    policy->cpus to minimum
    - LP: #1397928
  * cpufreq: powernv: Set the cpus to nominal frequency during reboot/kexec
    - LP: #1397928
  * xen-netfront: Remove BUGs on paged skb data which crosses a page
    boundary
    - LP: #1275879
  * ACPI / blacklist: blacklist Win8 OSI for Dell Vostro 3546
    - LP: #1383589
  * iwlwifi: add device / firmware to fw-error-dump file
    - LP: #1399440
  * iwlwifi: rename iwl_mvm_fw_error_next_data
    - LP: #1399440
  * iwlwifi: pcie: add firmware monitor capabilities
    - LP: #1399440
  * iwlwifi: remove wrong comment about alignment in iwl-fw-error-dump.h
    - LP: #1399440
  * iwlwifi: mvm: don't collect logs in the interrupt thread
    - LP: #1399440
  * iwlwifi: mvm: kill iwl_mvm_fw_error_rxf_dump
    - LP: #1399440
  * iwlwifi: mvm: update layout of firmware error dump
    - LP: #1399440
  * powerpc/pseries: Fix endiannes issue in RTAS call from xmon
    - LP: #1396235
  * mmc: sdhci-pci-o2micro: Fix Dell E5440 issue
    - LP: #1346067
  * mfd: rtsx: Fix PM suspend for 5227 & 5249
    - LP: #1359052
  * samsung-laptop: Add broken-acpi-video quirk for NC210/NC110
    - LP: #1401079
  * acer-wmi: Add acpi_backlight=video quirk for the Acer KAV80
    - LP: #1401079
  * pinctrl: baytrail: show output gpio state correctly on Intel Baytrail
    - LP: #1401079
  * ALSA: hda - Add dock support for Thinkpad T440 (17aa:2212)
    - LP: #1401079
  * ALSA: hda - Add ultra dock support for Thinkpad X240.
    - LP: #1401079
  * rbd: Fix error recovery in rbd_obj_read_sync()
    - LP: #1401079
  * ds3000: fix LNB supply voltage on Tevii S480 on initialization
    - LP: #1401079
  * powerpc: do_notify_resume can be called with bad thread_info flags
    argument
    - LP: #1401079
  * powerpc/powernv: Properly fix LPC debugfs endianness
    - LP: #1401079
  * irqchip: armada-370-xp: Fix MSI interrupt handling
    - LP: #1401079
  * irqchip: armada-370-xp: Fix MPIC interrupt handling
    - LP: #1401079
  * USB: kobil_sct: fix non-atomic allocation in write path
    - LP: #1401079
  * USB: opticon: fix non-atomic allocation in write path
    - LP: #14010...

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Andy Whitcroft (apw)
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Utopic):
status: New → Fix Released
importance: Undecided → Low
assignee: nobody → Seth Forshee (sforshee)
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