Re: [GIT PULL] KVM updates for the 2.6.37 merge window

Alexander Graf
2010-10-26T15:55:34Z

On 25.10.2010, at 09:59, Avi Kivity wrote:

> On 10/25/2010 06:49 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
>> On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 15:29:12 +0200
>> Avi Kivity<avi@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Linus, the repository and branch
>> >
>> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm.git kvm-updates/2.6.37
>> >
>> > contains the kvm updates for the 2.6.37 merge window. Major changes
>> > this time around include powerpc paravirtualization, a virtual tsc
>> > rework, and exposing npt to the guest for fast nested virtualization.
>> > Please pull.
>>
>> How about these patches which are in kvm.git/next but not
>> kvm-updates/2.6.37?
>>
>> PPC: KVM: Book E doesn't have __end_interrupts.
>> KVM: PPC: e500: Call kvm_vcpu_uninit() before kvmppc_e500_tlb_uninit()
>> KVM: PPC: BookE: fix sleep with interrupts disabled
>> KVM: PPC: BookE: Load the lower half of MSR
>>
>
> Alex, if you want them in, please prepare backports for 2.6.36.1.

Why backports for 2.6.36.1 when we're talking about 2.6.27? Most of them fix bugs introduced by the PV framework.

Alex