From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:47632 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755406AbbF0BJ6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jun 2015 21:09:58 -0400 Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 18:09:57 -0700 From: Greg KH To: shannon.zhao@linaro.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, christoffer.dall@linaro.org Subject: Re: [PATCH for 3.14.y stable 00/32] Backport fixes of KVM/ARM to 3.14.y stable kernel Message-ID: <20150627010957.GE29233@kroah.com> References: <1433256507-7856-1-git-send-email-shannon.zhao@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1433256507-7856-1-git-send-email-shannon.zhao@linaro.org> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 10:47:55PM +0800, shannon.zhao@linaro.org wrote: > From: Shannon Zhao > > For KVM/ARM there are many fixes which have been applied upstream while > not committed to stable kernels. Here we backport the important fixes > to 3.14.y stable kernel. > > We have compile-tested each patch on arm/arm64/x86 to make sure the > series are bisectable and have booted the resulting kernel on Fastmodel > and started 2 VMs for arm/arm64, and have boot-tested on TC2 and > started a guest. > > These patches are applied on the top of 3.14.43. > > Note in the previous mail I mention there are 9 patches which can't be > applied cleanly, but the others except [1] are due to the contexts of > modifications are changed, while the modifications themselves of patches > are almost same with the upstream ones. To patch [1], since it > requires applying full GICv3 support but it's out of the scope of stable > kernel. So this patch has a huge modification for stable kernel > comparing to the upstream one. > > [1] ae70593 arm/arm64: KVM: Keep elrsr/aisr in sync with software model I've applied the first 10 here, will queue up the rest for later kernels. thanks, greg k-h