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From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: x86/xen: ignore the VCPU_SSHOTTMR_future flag
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2023 11:30:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZR2vTN618U0UgtIA@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231004174628.2073263-1-paul@xen.org>

On Wed, Oct 04, 2023, Paul Durrant wrote:
> From: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>
> 
> Upstream Xen now ignores this flag [1], since the only guest kernel ever to
> use it was buggy. By ignoring the flag the guest will always get a callback
> if it sets a negative timeout which upstream Xen has determined not to
> cause problems for any guest setting the flag.
> 
> [1] https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=commitdiff;h=19c6cbd909
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>
> Reviewed-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
> ---
> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
> Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
> Cc: x86@kernel.org

If you're going to manually Cc folks, put the Cc's in the changelog proper so that
there's a record of who was Cc'd on the patch.

Or even better, just use scripts/get_maintainers.pl and only manually Cc people
when necessary.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-04 18:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-04 17:46 [PATCH v2] KVM: x86/xen: ignore the VCPU_SSHOTTMR_future flag Paul Durrant
2023-10-04 18:30 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2023-10-05  8:43   ` Paul Durrant
2023-10-06  1:48     ` Sean Christopherson
2023-10-06  8:40       ` Paul Durrant
2023-10-05  1:29 ` Sean Christopherson

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