SUSE-RU-2021:2990-1: important: Recommended update for powerpc-utils

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   SUSE Recommended Update: Recommended update for powerpc-utils
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Announcement ID:    SUSE-RU-2021:2990-1
Rating:             important
References:         #1189015 #1189571 
Affected Products:
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP3
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   An update that has two recommended fixes can now be
   installed.

Description:

   This update for powerpc-utils fixes the following issues:

   - Update from version 1.3.8 to version 1.3.9 (bsc#1189015)
     - Raise the log rotation threshold to 1MB so that more history is
       preserved.
     - Fix checking HCNID array size at boot time
     - Set autoconnect-slaves on HNV connections.
     - When trying to detect HNV bond list all connections, not only active
       ones.
     - Use hexdump from util-linux rather than xxd from vim.
     - hcn-init.service: Start together with NetworkManager.
     - ofpathname: Fix OF to logical FC lookup for multipath and partitions
     - bootlist: Fix for multipath devices with > 5 paths
     - Add the missing substring extraction of the partition number from the
       logical device path so that the partition number is appended to OFPATH
       when the logical device is a partition.
     - Introducing 'lparnumascore' that is is computing the LPAR NUMA score
       for CPU and memory.
       - This new command detects CPU and memory resources the kernel keep
         binded to the NUMA node topology of the departure node. It computes
         a ratio, and print it to the standard output. The ratio is between 0
         (worst) and 100 (best). The command is **not** locking
         '/var/lock/dr_config_lock' so user should ensure that there is not
         ongoing command impacting the computed scores. This allows the
   command to be run without special privileges.
     - Introduce 'of_associativity_to_node'
       - This device tree related function reads the ibm associativity
         property of a node and, using the specified 'min_common_deth',
         returns the NUMA node id
     - Rename 'is_lsslot_cmd' into 'read_dynamic_memory_v2'
     - Add manpage for the drmgr utility
     - Add a check against 'usr_drc_index' which is set when a remove by
       index operation is done to ensure the NUMA removal code is not
       triggered in that case.
     - Add support for the plug ID of a SCSI/SATA host
     - 'lpartstat': add '-x' option for the security flavor.
       - The output number means:
         - 0 = Speculative execution fully enabled
         - 1 = Speculative execution controls to mitigate user-to-kernel
   side-channel attacks
         - 2 = Speculative execution controls to mitigate user-to-kernel and
   user-to-user side-channel attacks
         - \- = The running kernel is not exposing the security flavor in
   '/proc/powerpc/lparcfg'
     - Introduce NUMA based LMB removal
       - When the NUMA topology can be read, all the LMBs found in the Device
         Tree are linked the corresponding node. LMB not associated to node
         are considered as not used. LMB associated to CPU less node are
         accounted separately because they will be targeted first to be
         remove. The LMB are removed from the CPU less nodes to reach an
         average number LMBs per CPU less node. The removal is done through
         the remove by DRC index API, allowing to remove a LMB at a time.
         When the requested amount of LMB could not be removed a partial
         status is reported. If the NUMA topology can't be read, we fallback
         using the legacy remove way.
     - Fix ofpathname race with udev rename
     - ofpathname: Use NVMe controller physical nsid
     - Use a loop to check for all related bonding connections and remove
       them explicitly one by one instead of using xargs
     - Avoid using 'ifcfg' file for checking bonding interface status
     - Wait for sysfs device ready when looking up device name
     - Avoid cleanup of bond interface at boot time when no HNV exists
     - Adds the option 'ppc64_cpu --version in 'ppc64_cpu --help' in the
       usage information of ppc64-cpu command.
     - Clean up dead network config interface after inactive migration
     - Disable 'vnic' as backup vdevice for migratable 'SR_IOV'
     - Fix qrydev checking for active interface error
     - Skip collecting lsdevinfo right before migration. When the LPARs has
       large number of devices, this can take quite a long time and flood the
       log message.
     - Wait for OS ready to lookup device name for configure HNV device.
     - The hybrid network virtualization is only supported on PowerVM LPAR.
       Exit the 'hcnmgr' gracefully on other power platform instead of return
       error.
   - Optimize 'lsdevinfo' filtering to prevent LPM timeouts (bsc#1189571)


Patch Instructions:

   To install this SUSE Recommended Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods
   like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

   Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP3:

      zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP3-2021-2990=1



Package List:

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP3 (ppc64le):

      powerpc-utils-1.3.9-9.9.1
      powerpc-utils-debuginfo-1.3.9-9.9.1
      powerpc-utils-debugsource-1.3.9-9.9.1


References:

   https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189015
   https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189571