From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.L-H@gmx.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ying.huang@intel.com,
stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: patch kvm-add-vt-x-machine-check-support.patch added to 2.6.30-stable tree
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 07:58:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090701145836.GA8480@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A4B76F3.6070604@redhat.com>
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 05:47:15PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 07/01/2009 05:18 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 04:41:54PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> >
> >> Should be in struct vmx_vcpu; otherwise ack.
> >>
> >
> > Done
> >
> > ---
> >
> > KVM: Add VT-x machine check support v4
> >
> > VT-x needs an explicit MC vector intercept to handle machine checks in the
> > hypervisor.
> >
> > It also has a special option to catch machine checks that happen
> > during VT entry.
> >
> > Do these interceptions and forward them to the Linux machine check
> > handler. Make it always look like user space is interrupted because
> > the machine check handler treats kernel/user space differently.
> >
> > Thanks to Huang Ying and Jiang Yunhong for help and testing.
> >
> >
>
> Ack, thanks. Stable boys, please use this instead of the patch from
> mainline and the two patches it dragged in.
So, I should use this instead of:
kvm-vmx-fix-handling-of-a-fault-during-nmi-unblocked-due-to-iret.patch
kvm-move-exit-due-to-nmi-handling-into-vmx_complete_interrupts.patch
kvm-add-vt-x-machine-check-support.patch
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-01 14:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20090629184144.76C9948FD3@coco.kroah.org>
2009-06-30 22:53 ` patch kvm-add-vt-x-machine-check-support.patch added to 2.6.30-stable tree Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
2009-06-30 23:42 ` Greg KH
2009-07-01 7:09 ` Andi Kleen
2009-07-01 7:35 ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-01 13:24 ` Andi Kleen
2009-07-01 13:41 ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-01 14:18 ` Andi Kleen
2009-07-01 14:47 ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-01 14:58 ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-07-01 15:04 ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-01 17:27 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2009-07-01 18:18 ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-01 18:42 ` Greg KH
2009-07-01 18:56 ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-01 19:31 ` Greg KH
2009-07-02 13:21 ` Avi Kivity
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