Re: [PULL 3.8 0/1] ppc patch queue 2013-01-18 for 3.8

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On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 07:23:53AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Jan 18, 2013, at 7:14 AM, Alexander Graf <agraf@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On 18.01.2013, at 11:55, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > 
> >> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:48:25AM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
> >>> Hi Marcelo / Gleb,
> >>> 
> >>> This is my current patch queue for ppc against 3.8.  Please pull.
> >>> 
> >>> It contains a bug fix for an issue that Ben Collins ran into, where
> >>> a guest would just abort because it traps during an unknown instruction.
> >>> 
> >> Is this regression from 3.7? If it is not it should wait for 3.9.
> > 
> > The first time I heard of this was with a 3.8 guest. But we can also wait for 3.9 and push it through stable afterwards.
> 
> It's such a simple change, what is the issue with including it? If the bug is hit, qemu/kvm exits anyway, so adding the patch can't do any damage.
> 
If we continue pushing simple changes that can't do any damage to
late -rc trees 3.8 will never be ready to released. The patch can go to
stable after 3.8 is released. Again if this is indeed regression this
another matter.

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			Gleb.
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