This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled kvm: x86: drop severity of "generation wraparound" message to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: kvm-x86-drop-severity-of-generation-wraparound-message.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From a629df7eadffb03e6ce4a8616e62ea29fdf69b6b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 10:43:39 +0100 Subject: kvm: x86: drop severity of "generation wraparound" message From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> commit a629df7eadffb03e6ce4a8616e62ea29fdf69b6b upstream. Since most virtual machines raise this message once, it is a bit annoying. Make it KERN_DEBUG severity. Fixes: 7a2e8aaf0f6873b47bc2347f216ea5b0e4c258ab Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c @@ -4449,7 +4449,7 @@ void kvm_mmu_invalidate_mmio_sptes(struc * zap all shadow pages. */ if (unlikely(kvm_current_mmio_generation(kvm) == 0)) { - printk_ratelimited(KERN_INFO "kvm: zapping shadow pages for mmio generation wraparound\n"); + printk_ratelimited(KERN_DEBUG "kvm: zapping shadow pages for mmio generation wraparound\n"); kvm_mmu_invalidate_zap_all_pages(kvm); } } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/kvm-x86-em_ret_far-overrides-cpl.patch queue-3.18/x86-export-get_xsave_addr.patch queue-3.18/kvm-x86-support-xsaves-usage-in-the-host.patch queue-3.18/kvm-x86-drop-severity-of-generation-wraparound-message.patch queue-3.18/kvm-x86-mask-out-xsaves.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html