Re: [GIT PULL v2] KVM/ARM Minor fixes for 3.9

[Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:28:15PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
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> On 17.04.2013, at 12:17, Christoffer Dall wrote:
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> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 2:20 AM, Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 02:10:01AM -0700, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 1:05 AM, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:25:10 -0700, Christoffer Dall
> > > > <cdall@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
> > > > > The following changes since commit
> > > > > 31880c37c11e28cb81c70757e38392b42e695dc6:
> > > > >
> > > > >   Linux 3.9-rc6 (2013-04-07 20:49:54 -0700)
> > > > >
> > > > > are available in the git repository at:
> > > > >
> > > > >   git://github.com/columbia/linux-kvm-arm.git kvm-arm-fixes-3.9
> > > > >
> > > > > for you to fetch changes up to 865499ea90d399e0682bcce3ae7af24277633699:
> > > > >
> > > > >   ARM: KVM: fix L_PTE_S2_RDWR to actually be Read/Write (2013-04-16
> > > > > 16:21:25 -0700)
> > > > >
> > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > > Marc Zyngier (2):
> > > > >       ARM: KVM: fix KVM_CAP_ARM_SET_DEVICE_ADDR reporting
> > > > >       ARM: KVM: fix L_PTE_S2_RDWR to actually be Read/Write
> > > > >
> > > > >  arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h |    2 +-
> > > > >  arch/arm/kvm/arm.c                    |    1 +
> > > > >  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > >
> > > > How about also adding:
> > > > "ARM: KVM: fix unbalanced get_cpu() in access_dcsw" (commit 685bee3 in my
> > > > kvm-arm/pre-arm64 branch)?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > sure, I updated the branch:
> > >
> > > The following changes since commit 31880c37c11e28cb81c70757e38392b42e695dc6:
> > >
> > >   Linux 3.9-rc6 (2013-04-07 20:49:54 -0700)
> > >
> > > are available in the git repository at:
> > >
> > >   git://github.com/columbia/linux-kvm-arm.git kvm-arm-fixes-3.9
> > >
> > > for you to fetch changes up to 31714c19553835558919a85f038bbe4b03b11078:
> > >
> > >   ARM: KVM: fix unbalanced get_cpu() in access_dcsw (2013-04-17 02:08:04
> > > -0700)
> > >
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Marc Zyngier (3):
> > >       ARM: KVM: fix KVM_CAP_ARM_SET_DEVICE_ADDR reporting
> > >       ARM: KVM: fix L_PTE_S2_RDWR to actually be Read/Write
> > Those two are in upstream already. Guys you shouldn't wait with the
> > important bugfixes until -rc7. 3.9 can be released any moment now.
> > 
> > 
> > Right, so that's the same commits so you could just fast-forward kvm/master by pulling from the same branch.
> > 
> > I thought you were going to send this to Linus before the 3.9 release, which is what I asked you and Marcelo a couple of days back.
> > 
> > So now I'm confused again: are you telling me to send a pull-request directly to Linus for these three patches?
> 
> No, he's telling you that Marcelo already sent a pull request to Linus last night, so the 3rd patch came too late.
> 
Yes. Marcelo has sent pull request yesterday and Linus pulled it
already. Sorry if I was not clear. Generally specking we should not wait
so late into the release to send fixes to Linus, exceptions happen of
course.

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			Gleb.