From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757554Ab0DWN7e (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:59:34 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:52048 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757414Ab0DWN7c (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:59:32 -0400 Message-ID: <4BD1A7BB.20206@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:59:23 +0300 From: Avi Kivity User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100330 Fedora/3.0.4-1.fc12 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Graf CC: Joerg Roedel , Marcelo Tosatti , kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] KVM: X86: Add callback to let modules decide over some supported cpuid bits References: <1271932394-13968-1-git-send-email-joerg.roedel@amd.com> <1271932394-13968-6-git-send-email-joerg.roedel@amd.com> <8750FE80-57D8-4D59-AC4A-D04B04E8707B@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <8750FE80-57D8-4D59-AC4A-D04B04E8707B@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 04/23/2010 04:52 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: > On 22.04.2010, at 12:33, Joerg Roedel wrote: > > >> This patch adds the get_supported_cpuid callback to >> kvm_x86_ops. It will be used in do_cpuid_ent to delegate the >> decission about some supported cpuid bits to the >> architecture modules. >> >> Cc: stable@kernel.org >> > Please don't CC stable. There is a KVM stable tag now, so every stable submission goes through Avi/Marcelo. > > > It's not a problem. stable@ will ignore kvm patches not coming from the maintainers, and we will recognize cc: stable as a stable request. (the new approach is to collect the patches in kvm-updates/2.6.x, autotest, and forward to stable@). -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.