Re: [PATCH 0/8] kvm/ppc: fixes for 3.10

[Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>]

On 06/09/2013 03:09:21 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 07:16:28PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> > Most of these have been posted before, but I grouped them together  
> as
> > there are some contextual dependencies between them.
> >
> > Gleb/Paolo: As Alex doesn't appear to be back yet, can you apply  
> these
> > if there's no objection over the next few days?
> >
> Well we are at -rc5 now and Linus specifically said that if he sees  
> one
> more "cleanup" he will be less then happy [1]. Looks like this patch
> series does have some cleanups that can be postponed to 3.11.
> Patches 1-4,7 looks like 3.10 material to me. 5 and 6 a cleanups that  
> can
> wait for 3.11. Not sure about 8, if 8 fixes serious problem please
> specify it in the commit message.

Agreed.

8 did fix a BUG_ON before patch 7 came along, but now it looks  
non-critical.

5 only affects IRQ tracing, and it's not a regression, so also probably  
not critical.  I'll resend patch 7 so that it applies without needing  
patch 5.

6 is mainly doing things that we originally thought were a fix to lazy  
ee handling, until we noticed code elsewhere handling it in a hackier  
way.  There's still a bugfix in that previously kvm_guest_exit() was  
called in the wrong place which could occasionally mess up virtual time  
accounting, but that's also not a regression and not critical.

-Scott