From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexander Graf Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/23] Bug fixes and improvements for HV KVM Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 12:36:36 +0100 Message-ID: <550C0644.9060503@suse.de> References: <1426844400-12017-1-git-send-email-paulus@samba.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Paul Mackerras , kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1426844400-12017-1-git-send-email-paulus@samba.org> Sender: kvm-ppc-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On 20.03.15 10:39, Paul Mackerras wrote: > This is my current patch queue for HV KVM on PPC. This series is > based on the "queue" branch of the KVM tree, i.e. roughly v4.0-rc3 > plus a set of recent KVM changes which don't intersect with the > changes in this series. On top of that, in my testing I have some > patches which are not KVM-related but are needed to boot and run a > recent upstream kernel successfully: > > tick/broadcast-hrtimer : Fix suspicious RCU usage in idle loop > tick/hotplug: Handover time related duties before cpu offline > powerpc/powernv: Check image loaded or not before calling flash > powerpc/powernv: Fixes for hypervisor doorbell handling > powerpc/powernv: Fix return value from power7_nap() et al. > powerpc: Export __spin_yield > > These patches have been posted by their authors and are on their way > upstream via various trees. They are not included in this series. > > The first three patches are bug fixes that should go into v4.0 if > possible. The remainder are intended for the 4.1 merge window. > > The patch "powerpc: Export __spin_yield" is a prerequisite for patch > 9/23 of this series ("KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Convert ICS mutex lock to > spin lock"). It is on its way upstream through the linuxppc-dev > mailing list. > > The patch "powerpc/powernv: Fixes for hypervisor doorbell handling" is > needed for correct operation with patch 20/23, "KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: > Use msgsnd for signalling threads". It is also on its way upstream > through the linuxppc-dev list. I am expecting both of these > prerequisite patches to go into 4.0. > > Finally, the last patch in this series converts some of the assembly > code in book3s_hv_rmhandlers.S into C. I intend to continue this > trend. Thanks, applied patches 4-11 to kvm-ppc-queue. Alex