Re: [GIT PULL] KVM/arm64 fixes for 5.12, take #1

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Hi Paolo,

On Fri, 05 Mar 2021 17:27:36 +0000,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On 05/03/21 17:49, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > Hi Paolo,
> > 
> > Here's the first batch of fixes for 5.12. We have a handful of low
> > level world-switch regressions, a page table walker fix, more PMU
> > tidying up, and a workaround for systems with creative firmware.
> > 
> > Note that this is based on -rc1 despite the breakage, as I didn't feel
> > like holding these patches until -rc2.
> > 
> > Please pull,
> > 
> > 	M.
> > 
> > The following changes since commit fe07bfda2fb9cdef8a4d4008a409bb02f35f1bd8:
> > 
> >    Linux 5.12-rc1 (2021-02-28 16:05:19 -0800)
> > 
> > are available in the Git repository at:
> > 
> >    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm.git tags/kvmarm-fixes-5.12-1
> > 
> > for you to fetch changes up to e85583b3f1fe62c9b371a3100c1c91af94005ca9:
> > 
> >    KVM: arm64: Fix range alignment when walking page tables (2021-03-04 09:54:12 +0000)
> 
> Hi Marc,
> 
> due to a severe data corruption bug in 5.12-rc1, Linus suggested not
> including 5.12-rc1 in trees to avoid it eating our filesystems
> unwittingly during future bisections.
> 
> Would it be a problem for you to rebase on top of your merge window
> pull request?  If there are conflicts, another possibility is for you
> to just send me the patch series.  I will handle all the topic branch
> juggling.
> 
> This will mean rewriting kvmarm.git's history, but it does seem to be
> the lesser (or the most future-proof) evil.

The problem is that this is not only kvmarm, but also the Android
tree, which directly pulls from the kvmarm stable branches. I guess
we'll have to live with it.

I'll reply to this email with the patch series.

Thanks,

	M.

-- 
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.



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