Re: [PATCH][v3.17.y] x86: kvm: use alternatives for VMCALL vs. VMMCALL if kernel text is read-only

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On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 02:56:30PM -0600, Chris J Arges wrote:
> Hi, please consider 
> commit c1118b3602c2329671ad5ec8bdf8e374323d6343
> For inclusion in stable kernels 3.12+, it fixes an issue as described here:
> http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1379340
> 
> I've found that 3.10 is unaffected by this issue, but 3.12+ are up until the
> above commit.
> 
> For v3.17.y it is a clean cherry-pick.
> For earlier stable kernels, I'll include the backported patches in this thread.
> 

Thanks Chris, I'll queue it for the 3.16 kernel.

Cheers,
--
Luís

> Thanks,
> --chris j arges
> 
> Paolo Bonzini (1):
>   x86: kvm: use alternatives for VMCALL vs. VMMCALL if kernel text is
>     read-only
> 
>  arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h |  1 +
>  arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h   | 10 ++++++++--
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c         |  7 +++++++
>  3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
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