Re: [PATCH 0 of 5] PowerPC KVM fixes for 2.6.26

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On Sunday 25 May 2008 05:35:36 Avi Kivity wrote:
> Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> > Hi Avi, these bug fixes should be committed for 2.6.26. Most are pretty
> > harmless. Although the mmap_sem locking problem is fatal if you hit it, in
> > practice we simply shouldn't hit that error case anyways.
> >   
> 
> Thanks; applied all.  AFAICS only the locking fix is necessary for 2.6.26?

Yes, the locking fix is necessary, since it could crash the host. Technically 
speaking this is the only critical patch, but I think the chance of the 
others causing regressions is very low (especially since there was no KVM PPC 
support in 2.6.25, so by definition... ;) .

-- 
Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center
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