On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 01:22:47AM +0000, Dexuan Cui wrote: > > Recently Wang Jian reported some KVP issues on the v4.4 kernel: > https://github.com/LIS/lis-next/issues/593: > e.g. the /var/lib/hyperv/.kvp_pool_* files can not be updated, and > sometimes if the hv_kvp_daemon doesn't timely start, the host may not > be able to query the VM's IP address via KVP. > > I identified these 4 mainline patches to fix the issues. The patches > can be applied cleanly to the latest 4.4.y branch (currently it's > v4.4.161). > > The first 3 are simply cherry-picked from the mainline, and the 4th > has to be reworked for the v4.4 kernel. > > Wang Jian tested the 4 patches, and the issues can be fixed. > I also did some tests and found no regression. > All now queued up, and I added the last one to 4.9.y as well. If it shouldn't be there, please let me know. thanks, greg k-h
