On Fri, 27 Jan 2017, Philipp Hahn wrote: > 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. Thank you Philipp! > > 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? Sasha, do you need anything more to pull this into 4.1? Thanks! -- Eric Wheeler > > > > 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 > >
