From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ram Pai Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 01:10:28 +0000 Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH v3 7/9] KVM: PPC: Ultravisor: Restrict LDBAR access Message-Id: <20190616011028.GA10806@ram.ibm.com> List-Id: References: <20190606173614.32090-1-cclaudio@linux.ibm.com> <20190606173614.32090-8-cclaudio@linux.ibm.com> <20190615074334.GD24709@blackberry> In-Reply-To: <20190615074334.GD24709@blackberry> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Paul Mackerras Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan , rgrimm@us.ibm.com, Michael Anderson , Claudio Carvalho , kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, Bharata B Rao , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Sukadev Bhattiprolu , Thiago Bauermann , Anshuman Khandual On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 05:43:34PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 02:36:12PM -0300, Claudio Carvalho wrote: > > When the ultravisor firmware is available, it takes control over the > > LDBAR register. In this case, thread-imc updates and save/restore > > operations on the LDBAR register are handled by ultravisor. > > > > Signed-off-by: Claudio Carvalho > > Signed-off-by: Ram Pai > > Acked-by: Paul Mackerras > > Just a note on the signed-off-by: it's a bit weird to have Ram's > signoff when he is neither the author nor the sender of the patch. > The author is assumed to be Claudio; if that is not correct then the > patch should have a From: line at the start telling us who the author > is, and ideally that person should have a signoff line before > Claudio's signoff as the sender of the patch. Ryan originally wrote this patch, which I than modified, before Claudio further modified it to its current form. So I think the author should be Ryan. RP