Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: arm64: vgic-v4: Make the doorbell request robust w.r.t" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree

[Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>]

On Mon, 01 Jul 2024 11:56:57 +0100,
"Gowans, James" <jgowans@amazon.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 2023-07-23 at 22:41 +0200, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> > The patch below does not apply to the 5.10-stable tree.
> > If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> > tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> > id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
> 
> Blast from the past, but we've recently been bitten by this bug when
> running a v5.10 kernel. I'm going to back-port it to v5.10 and v5.15,
> resolve the conflicts and post it.
> 
> Marc, please will you take a look and see if you're happy with the
> backport? The main change is going back to the old style of vCPU flag
> manipulation.

Thanks for having a stab at this.

I eyeballed the two patches, and couldn't see anything untoward.
However, I haven't tested them, as life is too short to run
prehistoric kernels ;-).

	M.

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