Hello, Am 27.01.2017 um 00:29 schrieb Eric Wheeler: > On Thu, 26 Jan 2017, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> On 26/01/2017 00:50, Eric Wheeler wrote: >>> 609e36d372a KVM: x86: pass host_initiated to functions that read MSRs >>> 81b1b9ca6d5 KVM: VMX: Fix host initiated access to guest MSR_TSC_AUX >>> >>> Thus, we need to either: >>> 1. Revert commit 8a3185c54d650a86dafc8d8bcafa124b50944315 >>> - or - >>> 2. Merge commits 609e36d372a and 81b1b9ca6d5 into 4.1.y. >>> >>> If you choose the latter options, then please see below for the backport >>> patch of 81b1b9ca6d5 (609e36d372a cherry-picks just fine). >>> >>> What do you believe would be best? >> >> The latter is better. >> >> Paolo > > Hi Greg, 4.1 is maintained by Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>, cc-ed. > Paolo suggests cherry-picking the dependent commits with the backport > patch instead of reverting the original patch. Do you need anything more > in this thread to bring this into v4.1.y? > > Its an "Option 3" according to Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt with > dependent commits so I'm not sure if you want this formatted any > differently to make your merge easy---let me know. Philipp
