Re: [PATCH 0/8] kvm/ppc: fixes for 3.10

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Il 10/06/2013 21:52, Scott Wood ha scritto:
> On 06/09/2013 03:09:21 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 07:16:28PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
>> > Most of these have been posted before, but I grouped them together as
>> > there are some contextual dependencies between them.
>> >
>> > Gleb/Paolo: As Alex doesn't appear to be back yet, can you apply these
>> > if there's no objection over the next few days?
>> >
>> Well we are at -rc5 now and Linus specifically said that if he sees one
>> more "cleanup" he will be less then happy [1]. Looks like this patch
>> series does have some cleanups that can be postponed to 3.11.
>> Patches 1-4,7 looks like 3.10 material to me. 5 and 6 a cleanups that can
>> wait for 3.11. Not sure about 8, if 8 fixes serious problem please
>> specify it in the commit message.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> 8 did fix a BUG_ON before patch 7 came along, but now it looks
> non-critical.
> 
> 5 only affects IRQ tracing, and it's not a regression, so also probably
> not critical.  I'll resend patch 7 so that it applies without needing
> patch 5.
> 
> 6 is mainly doing things that we originally thought were a fix to lazy
> ee handling, until we noticed code elsewhere handling it in a hackier
> way.  There's still a bugfix in that previously kvm_guest_exit() was
> called in the wrong place which could occasionally mess up virtual time
> accounting, but that's also not a regression and not critical.

CCed people probably already know, but in any case patches 1-4 are
already in Linus's tree (commit af180b81).

Paolo
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