Re: [PULL 0/7] vfio-ccw: fixes

Heiko Carstens
2019-06-04T15:24:51Z

On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 01:16:41PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Jun 2019 13:11:24 +0200
> Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 12:50:31PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > > The following changes since commit 674459be116955e025d6a5e6142e2d500103de8e:
> > >
> > > MAINTAINERS: add Vasily Gorbik and Christian Borntraeger for s390 (2019-05-31 10:14:15 +0200)
> > >
> > > are available in the Git repository at:
> > >
> > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvms390/vfio-ccw.git tags/vfio-ccw-20190603
> > >
> > > for you to fetch changes up to 9b6e57e5a51696171de990b3c41bd53d4b8ab8ac:
> > >
> > > s390/cio: Remove vfio-ccw checks of command codes (2019-06-03 12:02:55 +0200)
> > >
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > > various vfio-ccw fixes (ccw translation, state machine)
> > >
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Eric Farman (7):
> > > s390/cio: Update SCSW if it points to the end of the chain
> > > s390/cio: Set vfio-ccw FSM state before ioeventfd
> > > s390/cio: Split pfn_array_alloc_pin into pieces
> > > s390/cio: Initialize the host addresses in pfn_array
> > > s390/cio: Don't pin vfio pages for empty transfers
> > > s390/cio: Allow zero-length CCWs in vfio-ccw
> > > s390/cio: Remove vfio-ccw checks of command codes
> >
> > Given that none of the commits contains a stable tag, I assume it's ok
> > to schedule these for the next merge window (aka 'feature branch')?
>
> All are bug fixes, but for what I think are edge cases. Would be nice
> if they could still make it into 5.2, but I have no real problem with
> deferring them to the next release, either.
>
> Eric, Farhan: Do you agree?

As discussed on IRC: pulled and pushed to features branch. Urgent
fixes really should either have a stable and/or fixes tag, if
possible.

Thank you!