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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kvm: fix waitqueue_active without memory barrier in
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Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 17:30:04 +0100
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On 06/11/2015 14:02, William Dauchy wrote:
> Hi Paolo,
> 
> Looking at the history of this function, is it reasonable to say
> it fixes the following commit? af585b9 KVM: Halt vcpu if page it
> tries to access is swapped out
> 
> Does it make it a good candidate for -stable?

It's just a theoretical race, with no known reproducer, so it's
explicitly "forbidden" by the -stable rules.

Paolo