cxlflash: Backport upstream cxlflash commits and submitting a noup patch to Xenial

Default Comment by Bridge

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2016-04-04 18:06 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #6)
> Canonical,
>
> We would like to ask to include three patches to Ubuntu 16.04 in order to
> fix some cxlflash bugs and performance issues.
>
> They are:
> 1. http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=145893415107594&w=2 (not upstream yet)

Update - this patch has been accepted by the SCSI maintainer and is sitting in his fixes queue. Anticipate that it will be included with a PULL request this week for 4.6-rc3.

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi.git/commit/?h=fixes&id=ea76543127da32dec28af0a13ea1b06625fc085e

> 2. 83430833b4d4a9c9b23964babbeb1f36450f8136
> 3. 603ecce95f4817074a724a889cd88c3c8210f933
>
> Default Comment by Bridge

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.4.0-18.34

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linux (4.4.0-18.34) xenial; urgency=low

  [ Tim Gardner ]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1566868

  * [i915_bpo] Fix RC6 on SKL GT3 & GT4 (LP: #1564759)
    - SAUCE: i915_bpo: drm/i915/skl: Fix rc6 based gpu/system hang
    - SAUCE: i915_bpo: drm/i915/skl: Fix spurious gpu hang with gt3/gt4 revs

  * CONFIG_ARCH_ROCKCHIP not enabled in armhf generic kernel (LP: #1566283)
    - [Config] CONFIG_ARCH_ROCKCHIP=y

  * [Feature] Memory Bandwidth Monitoring (LP: #1397880)
    - perf/x86/cqm: Fix CQM handling of grouping events into a cache_group
    - perf/x86/cqm: Fix CQM memory leak and notifier leak
    - x86/cpufeature: Carve out X86_FEATURE_*
    - Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
    - x86/topology: Create logical package id
    - perf/x86/mbm: Add Intel Memory B/W Monitoring enumeration and init
    - perf/x86/mbm: Add memory bandwidth monitoring event management
    - perf/x86/mbm: Implement RMID recycling
    - perf/x86/mbm: Add support for MBM counter overflow handling

  * User namespace mount updates (LP: #1566505)
    - SAUCE: quota: Require that qids passed to dqget() be valid and map into s_user_ns
    - SAUCE: fs: Allow superblock owner to change ownership of inodes with unmappable ids
    - SAUCE: fuse: Don't initialize user_id or group_id in mount options
    - SAUCE: cgroup: Use a new super block when mounting in a cgroup namespace
    - SAUCE: fs: fix a posible leak of allocated superblock

  * [arm64] kernel BUG at /build/linux-StrpB2/linux-4.4.0/fs/ext4/inode.c:2394!
    (LP: #1566518)
    - arm64: Honour !PTE_WRITE in set_pte_at() for kernel mappings
    - arm64: Update PTE_RDONLY in set_pte_at() for PROT_NONE permission

  * [Feature]USB core and xHCI tasks for USB 3.1 SuperSpeedPlus (SSP) support
    for Alpine Ridge on SKL (LP: #1519623)
    - usb: define USB_SPEED_SUPER_PLUS speed for SuperSpeedPlus USB3.1 devices
    - usb: set USB 3.1 roothub device speed to USB_SPEED_SUPER_PLUS
    - usb: show speed "10000" in sysfs for USB 3.1 SuperSpeedPlus devices
    - usb: add device descriptor for usb 3.1 root hub
    - usb: Support USB 3.1 extended port status request
    - xhci: Make sure xhci handles USB_SPEED_SUPER_PLUS devices.
    - xhci: set roothub speed to USB_SPEED_SUPER_PLUS for USB3.1 capable controllers
    - xhci: USB 3.1 add default Speed Attributes to SuperSpeedPlus device capability
    - xhci: set slot context speed field to SuperSpeedPlus for USB 3.1 SSP devices
    - usb: Add USB3.1 SuperSpeedPlus Isoc Endpoint Companion descriptor
    - usb: Parse the new USB 3.1 SuperSpeedPlus Isoc endpoint companion descriptor
    - usb: Add USB 3.1 Precision time measurement capability descriptor support
    - xhci: refactor and cleanup endpoint initialization.
    - xhci: Add SuperSpeedPlus high bandwidth isoc support to xhci endpoints
    - xhci: cleanup isoc tranfers queuing code
    - xhci: Support extended burst isoc TRB structure used by xhci 1.1 for USB 3.1
    - SAUCE: (noup) usb: fix regression in SuperSpeed endpoint descriptor parsing

  * wrong/missing permissions for device f...

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2016-04-13 15:22 EDT-------
Canonical FYI:

Commit 6f21dbca4c985279200866b7f50b1f26b014c27a (UBUNTU: SAUCE: (noup) cxlflash: Move to exponential back-off when cmd_room is not available) is now upstream (ea76543127da32dec28af0a13ea1b06625fc085e).

The upstream commit appears to be identical, so I'll just leave well enough alone.

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2016-04-14 16:17 EDT-------
I have successfully verified the patches in the latest tree.