The patch titled KVM: Remove extranous put_cpu() from vcpu_put() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is kvm-remove-extranous-put_cpu-from-vcpu_put.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: KVM: Remove extranous put_cpu() from vcpu_put() From: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> The arch splitting patchset left an extra put_cpu() in core code, where it can cause trouble for CONFIG_PREEMPT kernels. Reported-by: Huihong Luo <huisinro@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c | 1 - 1 files changed, 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c~kvm-remove-extranous-put_cpu-from-vcpu_put drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c --- a/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c~kvm-remove-extranous-put_cpu-from-vcpu_put +++ a/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c @@ -205,7 +205,6 @@ static struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu_load(struct static void vcpu_put(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) { kvm_arch_ops->vcpu_put(vcpu); - put_cpu(); mutex_unlock(&vcpu->mutex); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from avi@xxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch kvm-add-missing-include.patch kvm-put-kvm-in-a-new-virtualization-menu.patch kvm-clean-up-amd-svm-debug-registers-load-and-unload.patch kvm-replace-__x86_64__-with-config_x86_64.patch kvm-make-the-get_sregs-and-set_sregs-ioctls-symmetric.patch kvm-move-find_vmx_entry-to-vmxc.patch kvm-remove-extranous-put_cpu-from-vcpu_put.patch kvm-mmu-ignore-pcd-pwt-and-pat-bits-on-ptes.patch kvm-add-maintainers-entry.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html