Re: KVM: x86: disable kvmclock on non constant TSC hosts

[Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 12:02 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 08:08:23PM +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> >   
> >> On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 14:01 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> >>>       
> >>>> This is better.
> >>>>
> >>>> Currently, this code path is posing us big troubles,
> >>>> and we won't have a decent patch in time. So, temporarily
> >>>> disable it.
> >>>>  
> >>>>   
> >>>>         
> >>> Applied to master and kvm-updates/2.6.29, thanks.
> >>>       
> >> Should we add:
> >>
> >> Cc: stable@kernel.org
> >>     
> >
> > I suppose Avi prefers the master->stable route so it can get 
> > autotested?
> >
> > But some sort of flag in the commit, like "Stable:Y" would
> > help. Could setup a robot to monitor kvm-commits and maintain
> > kvm-updates/2.6.2current (the queue to Linus), with human intervention
> > when necessary.
> >
> > Then autotest can run continuously on that.

I'm not really following Marcelo here ...

> Does 'Cc: stable' mean -stable picks it up automatically?  That doesn't 
> seem right.

Yeah, I think if you CC: stable it gets pulled into the stable queue by
scripts once linus merges it.

Cheers,
Mark.