ibmvscsis: Add SGL LIMIT

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Leann,

This is one for the Kernel team, although there does not appear to be a
patch attached. I'll set the bug status to incomplete.

                   Michael

On 02/07/2017 07:29 AM, Launchpad Bug Tracker wrote:
> bugproxy (bugproxy) has assigned this bug to you for Ubuntu:
>
> ---Problem Description---
> Provide an internal LIO SGL Limit, since the driver is already establishing and setting max transfer size on transport layer of 1MB to client. We should keep consistency and provide that limit to LIO.
>
> Upstream submission was made. Awaiting acceptance to provide commit id.
>
> ** Affects: ubuntu
> Importance: Undecided
> Assignee: Taco Screen team (taco-screen-team)
> Status: New
>
>
> ** Tags: architecture-ppc64le bugnameltc-151267 severity-medium targetmilestone-inin16042

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Michael Hohnbaum
OIL Program Manager
Power (ppc64el) Development Project Manager
Canonical, Ltd.

Setting to incomplete until patch is accepted, commit id provided

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2017-02-09 10:00 EDT-------
Patch has been accepted, by Nicholas Bellinger, LIO maintainer.

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2017-02-09 11:41 EDT-------
https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending/+/b22bc27868e8c11fe3f00937a341b44f80b50364

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2017-02-10 16:13 EDT-------
commit b22bc27868e8c11fe3f00937a341b44f80b50364 upstream.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2017-February/082445.html

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.8.0-40.43

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linux (4.8.0-40.43) yakkety; urgency=low

  * linux: 4.8.0-40.43 -proposed tracker (LP: #1667066)

  [ Andy Whitcroft ]
  * NFS client : permission denied when trying to access subshare, since kernel
    4.4.0-31 (LP: #1649292)
    - fs: Better permission checking for submounts

  * shaking screen (LP: #1651981)
    - drm/radeon: drop verde dpm quirks

  * [0bda:0328] Card reader failed after S3 (LP: #1664809)
    - usb: hub: Wait for connection to be reestablished after port reset

  * linux-lts-xenial 4.4.0-63.84~14.04.2 ADT test failure with linux-lts-xenial
    4.4.0-63.84~14.04.2 (LP: #1664912)
    - SAUCE: apparmor: fix link auditing failure due to, uninitialized var

  * In Ubuntu 17.04 : after reboot getting message in console like Unable to
    open file: /etc/keys/x509_ima.der (-2) (LP: #1656908)
    - SAUCE: ima: Downgrade error to warning

  * 16.04.2: Extra patches for POWER9 (LP: #1664564)
    - powerpc/mm: Fix no execute fault handling on pre-POWER5
    - powerpc/mm: Fix spurrious segfaults on radix with autonuma

  * ibmvscsis: Add SGL LIMIT (LP: #1662551)
    - ibmvscsis: Add SGL limit

  * [Hyper-V] Bug fixes for storvsc (tagged queuing, error conditions)
    (LP: #1663687)
    - scsi: storvsc: Enable tracking of queue depth
    - scsi: storvsc: Remove the restriction on max segment size
    - scsi: storvsc: Enable multi-queue support
    - scsi: storvsc: use tagged SRB requests if supported by the device
    - scsi: storvsc: properly handle SRB_ERROR when sense message is present
    - scsi: storvsc: properly set residual data length on errors

  * Ubuntu16.10-KVM:Big configuration with multiple guests running SRIOV VFs
    caused KVM host hung and all KVM guests down. (LP: #1651248)
    - KVM: PPC: Book 3S: XICS cleanup: remove XICS_RM_REJECT
    - KVM: PPC: Book 3S: XICS: correct the real mode ICP rejecting counter
    - KVM: PPC: Book 3S: XICS: Fix potential issue with duplicate IRQ resends
    - KVM: PPC: Book 3S: XICS: Implement ICS P/Q states
    - KVM: PPC: Book 3S: XICS: Don't lock twice when checking for resend

  * ISST-LTE:pNV: ppc64_cpu command is hung w HDs, SSDs and NVMe (LP: #1662666)
    - blk-mq: Avoid memory reclaim when remapping queues
    - blk-mq: Fix failed allocation path when mapping queues
    - blk-mq: Always schedule hctx->next_cpu

  * systemd-udevd hung in blk_mq_freeze_queue_wait testing unpartitioned NVMe
    drive (LP: #1662673)
    - percpu-refcount: fix reference leak during percpu-atomic transition

  * [Yakkety SRU] Enable KEXEC support in ARM64 kernel (LP: #1662554)
    - [Config] Enable KEXEC support in ARM64.

  * [Hyper-V] Fix ring buffer handling to avoid host throttling (LP: #1661430)
    - Drivers: hv: vmbus: On write cleanup the logic to interrupt the host
    - Drivers: hv: vmbus: On the read path cleanup the logic to interrupt the host
    - Drivers: hv: vmbus: finally fix hv_need_to_signal_on_read()

  * brd module compiled as built-in (LP: #1593293)
    - CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=m

  * regession tests failing after stackprofile test is run (LP: #1661030)
    - SAUCE: fix regression with domain change in compla...

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.4.0-65.86

---------------
linux (4.4.0-65.86) xenial; urgency=low

  * linux: 4.4.0-65.86 -proposed tracker (LP: #1667052)

  [ Stefan Bader ]
  * Upgrade Redpine RS9113 driver to support AP mode (LP: #1665211)
    - SAUCE: Redpine driver to support Host AP mode

  * NFS client : permission denied when trying to access subshare, since kernel
    4.4.0-31 (LP: #1649292)
    - fs: Better permission checking for submounts

  * [Hyper-V] SAUCE: pci-hyperv fixes for SR-IOV on Azure (LP: #1665097)
    - SAUCE: PCI: hv: Fix wslot_to_devfn() to fix warnings on device removal
    - SAUCE: pci-hyperv: properly handle pci bus remove
    - SAUCE: pci-hyperv: lock pci bus on device eject

  * [Hyper-V/Azure] Please include Mellanox OFED drivers in Azure kernel and
    image (LP: #1650058)
    - net/mlx4_en: Fix bad WQE issue
    - net/mlx4_core: Fix racy CQ (Completion Queue) free
    - net/mlx4_core: Fix when to save some qp context flags for dynamic VST to VGT
      transitions
    - net/mlx4_core: Avoid command timeouts during VF driver device shutdown

  * Xenial update to v4.4.49 stable release (LP: #1664960)
    - ARC: [arcompact] brown paper bag bug in unaligned access delay slot fixup
    - selinux: fix off-by-one in setprocattr
    - Revert "x86/ioapic: Restore IO-APIC irq_chip retrigger callback"
    - cpumask: use nr_cpumask_bits for parsing functions
    - hns: avoid stack overflow with CONFIG_KASAN
    - ARM: 8643/3: arm/ptrace: Preserve previous registers for short regset write
    - target: Don't BUG_ON during NodeACL dynamic -> explicit conversion
    - target: Use correct SCSI status during EXTENDED_COPY exception
    - target: Fix early transport_generic_handle_tmr abort scenario
    - target: Fix COMPARE_AND_WRITE ref leak for non GOOD status
    - ARM: 8642/1: LPAE: catch pending imprecise abort on unmask
    - mac80211: Fix adding of mesh vendor IEs
    - netvsc: Set maximum GSO size in the right place
    - scsi: zfcp: fix use-after-free by not tracing WKA port open/close on failed
      send
    - scsi: aacraid: Fix INTx/MSI-x issue with older controllers
    - scsi: mpt3sas: disable ASPM for MPI2 controllers
    - xen-netfront: Delete rx_refill_timer in xennet_disconnect_backend()
    - ALSA: seq: Fix race at creating a queue
    - ALSA: seq: Don't handle loop timeout at snd_seq_pool_done()
    - drm/i915: fix use-after-free in page_flip_completed()
    - Linux 4.4.49

  * NFS client : kernel 4.4.0-57 crash with nfsv4 enries in /etc/fstab
    (LP: #1650336)
    - SUNRPC: fix refcounting problems with auth_gss messages.

  * [0bda:0328] Card reader failed after S3 (LP: #1664809)
    - usb: hub: Wait for connection to be reestablished after port reset

  * linux-lts-xenial 4.4.0-63.84~14.04.2 ADT test failure with linux-lts-xenial
    4.4.0-63.84~14.04.2 (LP: #1664912)
    - SAUCE: apparmor: fix link auditing failure due to, uninitialized var

  * ibmvscsis: Add SGL LIMIT (LP: #1662551)
    - ibmvscsis: Add SGL limit

  * [Hyper-V] Bug fixes for storvsc (tagged queuing, error conditions)
    (LP: #1663687)
    - scsi: storvsc: Enable tracking of queue depth
    - scsi: storvsc: Remove the ...