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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Subject: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] KVM: VMX: Simplify segment_base
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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> Paolo, how stable, non-rebasing are the KVM tree commits?

Whatever ends in linux-next is stable.  I have a separate rebasing branch,
but it's not part of linux-next by design.

> Or should we keep Andy's KVM patches together with the GDT patches? Either
> workflow works for me - it's your call as these are predominantly KVM
> changes.

I'll delay my pull request to Linus a couple days so that I can test
Andy's 6 patches. Then you can just base your branch on Linus's tree.

Paolo