Bug 463811

Summary: [LTC 6.0 FEAT] 201753:Provide service levels of HW & Hypervisor in Linux
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: IBM Bug Proxy <bugproxy>
Component: kernelAssignee: Hans-Joachim Picht <hpicht>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Martin Jenner <mjenner>
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Priority: high    
Version: 6.0CC: ejratl, peterm
Target Milestone: alphaKeywords: FutureFeature
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Hardware: s390x   
OS: All   
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Bug Blocks: 356741, 465490    

Description IBM Bug Proxy 2008-09-24 19:10:45 UTC
=Comment: #0=================================================
Emily J. Ratliff <emilyr.com> - 2008-09-24 13:51 EDT
1. Feature Overview:
Feature Id:	[201753]
a. Name of Feature:	Provide service levels of HW & Hypervisor in Linux
b. Feature Description
Provide service levels of hardware and zVM service-levels to Linux userspace, in this case, via
/proc/service_levels

2. Feature Details:
Sponsor:	zSeries
Architectures:
s390x

Arch Specificity: Purely Arch Specific Code
Affects Core Kernel: Yes
Delivery Mechanism: Direct from community
Category:	RAS
Request Type:	Kernel - Enhancement from IBM
d. Upstream Acceptance:	In Progress
Sponsor Priority	1
f. Severity: High
IBM Confidential:	no
Code Contribution:	IBM code
g. Component Version Target:	2.6.28

3. Business Case
This feature simplfies problem analysis, reducing service costs and TCO, because every time a
customer reports a problem this information is needed.

4. Primary contact at Red Hat: 
John Jarvis
jjarvis

5. Primary contacts at Partner:
Project Management Contact:
Hans-Georg Markgraf, mgrf.com, Boeblingen 49-7031-16-3978

Technical contact(s):
Gonzalo Muelas Serrano, gmuelas.com

IBM Manager:
Thomas Schwarz, t.schwarz.com

Comment 1 IBM Bug Proxy 2009-03-03 22:10:59 UTC
This is accepted with k 2.6.29

comes via upstream

Comment 2 IBM Bug Proxy 2010-09-29 12:51:52 UTC
------- Comment From gmuelas.com 2010-09-29 08:43 EDT-------
This feature is still being verified, but we do not expect any issues here and will be verified before GA.

Comment 3 IBM Bug Proxy 2010-10-25 06:31:24 UTC
------- Comment From mgrf.com 2010-10-25 02:27 EDT-------
This feature is verified on R6 snapshots - set to verified