Re: [PATCH for 3.12.y stable 00/63] Backport fixes of KVM/ARM to 3.12.y stable kernel

[Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>]

On 04/24/2015, 07:26 AM, shannon.zhao@linaro.org wrote:
> From: Shannon Zhao <shannon.zhao@linaro.org>
> 
> 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 3.12.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 3.12.40. They can be fetched
> from following address:
> https://git.linaro.org/people/shannon.zhao/linux-stable.git linux-3.12.y

Hi,

thanks a lot for the patches.

Given the patches are purely arm && kvm, I have applied them all and
will release them as 3.12.42 with nothing else in that release.

...
>  Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt    |   3 +-
>  arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_arm.h       |  11 +-
>  arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_asm.h       |   4 +-
>  arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h   |  10 ++
>  arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h      |  11 +-
>  arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h       |  55 ++++--
>  arch/arm/kernel/asm-offsets.c        |   1 +
>  arch/arm/kernel/hyp-stub.S           |   2 +-
>  arch/arm/kvm/Kconfig                 |   3 +-
>  arch/arm/kvm/arm.c                   | 142 +++++++++------
>  arch/arm/kvm/coproc.c                |  85 +++++++--
>  arch/arm/kvm/coproc.h                |  14 +-
>  arch/arm/kvm/coproc_a15.c            |  19 +-
>  arch/arm/kvm/handle_exit.c           |  24 ++-
>  arch/arm/kvm/init.S                  |   4 +
>  arch/arm/kvm/interrupts.S            |  11 +-
>  arch/arm/kvm/interrupts_head.S       |  21 ++-
>  arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c                   | 331 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  arch/arm/kvm/psci.c                  |  27 ++-
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_arm.h     |  41 +++--
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asm.h     |   3 +-
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h |  12 ++
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h    |   4 +-
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h     |  58 +++---
>  arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig               |   1 +
>  arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c               |   1 -
>  arch/arm64/kvm/handle_exit.c         |  23 ++-
>  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp-init.S            |   4 +
>  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.S                 |  42 ++++-
>  arch/arm64/kvm/reset.c               |   1 -
>  arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c            | 103 +++++++++--
>  arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.h            |   2 +
>  include/kvm/arm_arch_timer.h         |  10 +-
>  include/kvm/arm_vgic.h               |   5 +
>  virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c            |  30 +++-
>  virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c                  |  76 ++++++--
>  36 files changed, 917 insertions(+), 277 deletions(-)
> 

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs