From: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
To: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>,
kvmarm@lists.linux.dev, Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>,
Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>,
Steffen Eiden <seiden@linux.ibm.com>,
Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>,
Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@arm.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] KVM: arm64: fix VGICv3 redistributor rollback
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2026 20:29:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <apR2SFrwBa9tCS5y@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zey4m2qy.wl-maz@kernel.org>
On Sun, Aug 30, 2026 at 09:28:05AM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> I really don't understand why this is such a massive departure from
> v2, which was pretty close to what I wanted to see.
>
> Honestly, you are making things harder for everyone by over-designing
> (or more probably under-filtering) things that should be *fixes*, and
> just that.
>
> If you want to rework all of the vgic init/destroy, fine by me. Do
> that as a separate series. But for fixes that carry a Cc stable and
> require backporting to 6 year old kernels, that's not on.
>
> The hack below is what I have against your v2 to make it acceptable.
Okay, thanks. I’ll adapt your suggestion and send a much more minimal v4.
Karl
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-30 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-22 9:53 [PATCH v3 0/5] KVM: arm64: fix VGICv3 redistributor rollback Karl Mehltretter
2026-08-22 9:53 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Undo assignment on iodev registration failure Karl Mehltretter
2026-08-22 9:53 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Reset redistributors after failed region setup Karl Mehltretter
2026-08-22 9:53 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Separate redistributor teardown from unassignment Karl Mehltretter
2026-08-22 9:53 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] KVM: arm64: selftests: Pass guest code to vm_gic_create_with_vcpus() Karl Mehltretter
2026-08-22 9:53 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] KVM: arm64: selftests: Test VGICv3 redistributor region retry Karl Mehltretter
2026-08-23 15:39 ` [PATCH v3 0/5] KVM: arm64: fix VGICv3 redistributor rollback Fuad Tabba
2026-08-30 8:28 ` Marc Zyngier
2026-08-30 18:29 ` Karl Mehltretter [this message]
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