[Bug 1799208] Re: dbginfo.sh does not complete on Ubuntu 16.04(.5)

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

Hello.

I have prepared this backport, however I am not sure if I did right.

Would you please be able to test the build from a PPA?

s390-tools (1.34.0-0ubuntu8.9) xenial; urgency=medium

  * dump2tar: backport utility
  * dbginfo.sh: backport patch to use dump2tar instead of walking sysfs
  * Addresses dbginfo.sh hanging indefinately whilst walking sysfs. LP:
    #1799208

 -- Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox at ubuntu.com>  Wed, 23 Jan 2019 07:36:29
-0500

https://launchpad.net/~ci-train-ppa-service/+archive/ubuntu/3608

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ci-train-ppa-service/3608
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

** Changed in: s390-tools (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => In Progress

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Title:
  dbginfo.sh does not complete on Ubuntu 16.04(.5)

Status in Ubuntu on IBM z Systems:
  Confirmed
Status in s390-tools package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  dbginfo.sh does not complete on Ubuntu 16.04(.5) using s390-tools
  version 1.34.0-0ubuntu8.7

  Execution starts and proceeds until step 4 'sysfs':
  $ sudo dbginfo.sh
  dbginfo.sh: Debug information script version 1.34.0-build-20180502
  Copyright IBM Corp. 2002, 2016

  Hardware platform     = s390x
  Kernel version        = 4.15.0 (4.15.0-33-generic)
  Runtime environment   = LPAR

  1 of 10: Collecting command output
   
  2 of 10: Collecting z/VM command output skipped - no z/VM environment
   
  3 of 10: Collecting procfs
   
  4 of 10: Collecting sysfs

  'dd' process with 100% CPU can be seen:

  # ps aux | grep [d]d\ 
  root     257158  100  0.0   2120   664 pts/0    R+   06:51  11:18 dd if=/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace status=noxfer iflag=nonblock of=/tmp/DBGINFO-2018-10-22-06-49-52-s1lp15-1F8F67//sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace

  Happens on 16.04.5 with kernel 4.4 or HWE kernel 4.15.
  But works fine on 18.04 (with kernel 4.15) and s390-tools 2.3.0-0ubuntu3.

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