Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull my kvm-ppc-next-5.1-3 tag

[Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>]

On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 04:21:30PM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Paolo & Radim,
> 
> Immediately after I sent my previous pull request, I saw that Suraj
> had posted a patch that advertises a new mitigation for one of the
> spectre vulnerabilities to userspace.  The code for the host to know
> about and use this new mitigation went into 4.19.  Since the patch is
> low-risk and security-related, I would like to get it into 5.1.  With
> this patch and a related QEMU patch, guests will be able to use this
> new mitigation on machines that support it.
> 
> So, please do a pull from my kvm-ppc-next-5.1-3 tag to get this
> commit.  (If you haven't already pulled the 5.1-2 tag then you will
> get the compile fix as well, of course.)
> 
> Thanks,
> Paul.

Ping?

Also, if you have sent a pull request to Linus for the 5.1 merge
window, I missed it.  Has that been sent?

Regards,
Paul.

> The following changes since commit e74d53e30e2927fa5b223296ac7922baf15ea89a:
> 
>   KVM: PPC: Fix compilation when KVM is not enabled (2019-02-27 09:14:44 +1100)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc tags/kvm-ppc-next-5.1-3
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to 2b57ecd0208f7ac0b20b1b171698f027481a39f6:
> 
>   KVM: PPC: Book3S: Add count cache flush parameters to kvmppc_get_cpu_char() (2019-03-01 15:11:14 +1100)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Third PPC KVM update for 5.1
> 
> - Tell userspace about whether a particular hardware workaround for
>   one of the Spectre vulnerabilities is available, so that userspace
>   can inform the guest.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Suraj Jitindar Singh (1):
>       KVM: PPC: Book3S: Add count cache flush parameters to kvmppc_get_cpu_char()
> 
>  arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h |  2 ++
>  arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c          | 18 ++++++++++++++----
>  2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)