From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] KVM changes for Linux 4.19-rc5 Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 18:25:45 +0200 Message-ID: <20180921162544.GA32325@kroah.com> References: <1537538766-8252-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rkrcmar@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Paolo Bonzini Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1537538766-8252-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 04:06:06PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Greg, > > The following changes since commit 7876320f88802b22d4e2daf7eb027dd14175a0f8: > > Linux 4.19-rc4 (2018-09-16 11:52:37 -0700) > > are available in the git repository at: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm.git tags/for-linus > > for you to fetch changes up to 26b471c7e2f7befd0f59c35b257749ca57e0ed70: > > KVM: nVMX: Fix bad cleanup on error of get/set nested state IOCTLs (2018-09-20 18:54:08 +0200) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This pull request is slightly bigger than usual at this stage, but > I swear I would have sent it the same to Linus! The main cause for > this is that I was on vacation until two weeks ago and it took a while > to sort all the pending patches between 4.19 and 4.20, test them and > so on. > > It's mostly small bugfixes and cleanups, mostly around x86 nested > virtualization. One important change, not related to nested > virtualization, is that the ability for the guest kernel to trap CPUID > instructions (in Linux that's the ARCH_SET_CPUID arch_prctl) is now > masked by default. This is because the feature is detected through an > MSR; a very bad idea that Intel seems to like more and more. Some > applications choke if the other fields of that MSR are not initialized > as on real hardware, hence we have to disable the whole MSR by default, > as was the case before Linux 4.12. Now pulled, thanks. greg k-h