On 9 December 2014 at 13:38, Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 01:29:52PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >> On 9 December 2014 at 12:26, Christoffer Dall >> <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> >> > >> > Instead of using kvm_is_mmio_pfn() to decide whether a host region >> > should be stage 2 mapped with device attributes, add a new static >> > function kvm_is_device_pfn() that disregards RAM pages with the >> > reserved bit set, as those should usually not be mapped as device >> > memory. >> > >> > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> >> > Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> >> >> As I mentioned last week, this patch (and the next one) are already in >> 3.18 so unless there is some policy I am unaware of, these do not have >> to be submitted again. >> > They're in kvmarm/next, which is a stable branch (doesn't rebase) so our > only choice would be to revert this commit specifically in kvmarm/next > before sending the pull request. Since that would be more confusing > than help anything, and Paolo said to just include the duplicate commit > in the pull request, here it is. > > As we can see in linux-next, it's not really a problem. > OK, thanks for the explanation. -- Ard. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
