Linux stable kernels can reach greater than 256 sublevels [1],
which can cause the cpi tooling to generate an invalid string
that gets passed to the firmware and causes unusual responses:
$ uname -r
5.4.255
$ cat /sys/firmware/cpi/system_level
0x04260000000504ff
--reboot--
$ uname -r
5.4.256
$ cat /sys/firmware/cpi/system_level
0x4260000000504100
The first sublevel field is defined as one byte, so ensure that
a value larger than that isn't included.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1612534196241236@kroah.com/
Signed-off-by: Eric Farman <farman@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
Some development kernel versions provide an 8-digit date number like
"20220325" in place of the second kernel sublevel, while the data
format used to send this information to the HMC only supports 16 Bit
numbers. As a result, the HMC displays a seemingly random sublevel
number.
Fix this by replacing excessive sublevel numbers with 0 to ensure that
these numbers are handled consistently.
Reviewed-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
Extend cpictl to report Linux distribution type and version information,
and another sublevel of Linux kernel version data via the system level
field of the SCLP CPI firmware interface. This data is intended to be
decoded by the IBM Z HMC web-UI to provide users a more detailed view of
Linux software levels installed in LPARs.
For this purpose, the format of the 64-bit system level word is extended
in a compatible way, that is, the meaning of existing fields remains
unchanged while additional data is added to previously unused fields.
The new format is defined as 0xabccddeeeeffgghh, where:
- a=statistics flags
- b=distro id
- c=distro major version
- d=distro minor version(s)
- e=kernel sublevel 2
- f=kernel version
- g=kernel patchlevel
- h=kernel sublevel 1
This format will be automatically reported for supported distributions
based on data from /etc/os-release. As before, users can override the
data by specifying a custom system level word in /etc/sysconfig/cpi.
To support manual specification of new data fields, the format of
cpictl's -L command line option and the CPI_SYSTEM_LEVEL environment
variable are extended as follows:
- 0x<level>
Specifies the system level as 64 bit hex value
- [[[flags:]distro_id:distro_version:]kernel_version]
Specifies the system level as list of optional fields. Any field that
is omitted is initialized with automatically determined values.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
Under certain conditions, e.g. in a KVM guest, a write operation
to /sys/firmware/cpi/set can result in an error message to
stderr while the script returns with a zero exit code, indicating
success.
This can cause confusion if cpictl is called by systemd due to
the existence of a writable /sys/firmware/cpi/. Let's silence
cpictl when writing to the /sys/firmware/cpi/set. This is OK, as
nothing can be inferred from failure or success from the perspective
of the invoking Linux instance.
Fixes: https://github.com/ibm-s390-linux/s390-tools/issues/120
Signed-off-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
The information shown with the --help option did not mention the -v or
--version option which can be used to retrieve the version information.
This patch fixes it.
Fixes: 7179f5de2a1582 ("cpi: Introduce new udev rule and integrate with systemd unit")
Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reference-ID: VS1706
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Add a new udev rule that is triggered when a KVM VM is started
on the system the very first time. This rule reports over the
sysfs CPI kernel interface that the system is a KVM host.
Currently the cpi.service systemd unit already works with
the CPI sysfs interface. Introduce a new internal utility
script "cpictl" that is used by both the udev rule and
the systemd unit to guarantee coordinated access to the
kernel CPU interface.
Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Viktor Mihajlovski <mihajlov@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
