From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
To: Ben Collins <ben.c@servergy.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, KVM list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PULL 3.8 0/1] ppc patch queue 2013-01-18 for 3.8
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:40:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130121104055.GJ31120@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EB285252-B7B3-486A-9673-53CE46C19315@servergy.com>
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 07:23:53AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Jan 18, 2013, at 7:14 AM, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> wrote:
>
> >
> > On 18.01.2013, at 11:55, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:48:25AM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
> >>> Hi Marcelo / Gleb,
> >>>
> >>> This is my current patch queue for ppc against 3.8. Please pull.
> >>>
> >>> It contains a bug fix for an issue that Ben Collins ran into, where
> >>> a guest would just abort because it traps during an unknown instruction.
> >>>
> >> Is this regression from 3.7? If it is not it should wait for 3.9.
> >
> > The first time I heard of this was with a 3.8 guest. But we can also wait for 3.9 and push it through stable afterwards.
>
> It's such a simple change, what is the issue with including it? If the bug is hit, qemu/kvm exits anyway, so adding the patch can't do any damage.
>
If we continue pushing simple changes that can't do any damage to
late -rc trees 3.8 will never be ready to released. The patch can go to
stable after 3.8 is released. Again if this is indeed regression this
another matter.
--
Gleb.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-21 10:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-17 23:48 [PULL 3.8 0/1] ppc patch queue 2013-01-18 for 3.8 Alexander Graf
2013-01-17 23:48 ` [PATCH 1/1] KVM: PPC: Emulate dcbf Alexander Graf
2013-01-18 10:55 ` [PULL 3.8 0/1] ppc patch queue 2013-01-18 for 3.8 Gleb Natapov
2013-01-18 12:14 ` Alexander Graf
2013-01-18 12:23 ` Ben Collins
2013-01-21 10:40 ` Gleb Natapov [this message]
2013-01-21 12:15 ` Ben Collins
2013-01-21 23:36 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-01-24 18:23 ` Alexander Graf
2013-01-24 21:18 ` Gleb Natapov
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