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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 03:38:07 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: PPC: fix ONE_REG AltiVec support
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To: Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, mihai.caraman@freescale.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 06:28:17PM +0100, Greg Kurz wrote:
> The get and set operations got exchanged by mistake when moving the
> code from book3s.c to powerpc.c.
> 
> Fixes: 3840edc8033ad5b86deee309c1c321ca54257452
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> 
> I posted the very same patch before the holidays but it did not gain
> attention. It is very surprising that the error did not cause trouble
> for such a long time... I discovered it by accident while implementing
> gdbstubs for VSX registers in QEMU. But I guess it is also likely to
> break migration of guests that do AltiVec.
> 
> I am not sure if Alex is available to handle this patch... since the
> error is obvious and the fix straightforward, can this patch be applied
> by someone else ? Paulus ? Paolo ?

I'll take it and add it to my upcoming pull request to Paolo.

Paul.