Re: Please apply commit cf0d53ba4947 and 523184972b28 to v4.4.y, v4.9.y, v4.14.y

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On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 03:50:37PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Apr 2018 17:06:42 -0400
> Sinan Kaya <okaya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Greg,
> > 
> > On 4/20/2018 12:47 PM, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> > > I'll take a look at 4.4.y and check with Alex if these can be backported or not.
> > >   
> > 
> > I worked with Alex today.
> > 
> > The commit 523184972b28 doesn't apply because of another missing patch on 4.4.y
> > kernel. 
> > 
> > commit ddf9dc0eb531 ("vfio-pci: Virtualize PCIe & AF FLR")
> > 
> > Please apply commit ddf9dc0eb531 ("vfio-pci: Virtualize PCIe & AF FLR") before applying
> > 523184972b28.
> > 
> > commit ddf9dc0eb531 ("vfio-pci: Virtualize PCIe & AF FLR") also fixes a real issue
> > as follows:
> > 
> > "This seems to fix several instance of devices getting into bad states
> > with userspace drivers, like dpdk, running inside a VM."
> > 
> > 
> > It would be good to pull both to 4.y.
> > 
> > I'll have to work on cf0d53ba4947 next.
> 
> cf0d53ba4947 should be a clean pick to latest 4.4.y, after applying
> ddf9dc0eb531 followed by 523184972b28, at least that's the way it
> worked for me.  The additional commit ddf9dc0eb531 made the v4.9
> release, so it's already present in the other stable trees.  Thanks,

Yes, that all seems to work properly now, everything should be queued
up.  If I've missed anything, please let me know.

thanks,

greg k-h



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