From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759278Ab0FJRfG (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:35:06 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:56973 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752555Ab0FJRfE (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:35:04 -0400 Message-ID: <4C11223E.7010806@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:34:54 +0300 From: Avi Kivity User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100430 Fedora/3.0.4-3.fc13 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Marcelo Tosatti , KVM list , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] KVM updates for 2.6.35-rc2 References: <4C10B10D.80304@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 06/10/2010 07:33 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:31 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: > >> Linus, please pull from >> >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm.git kvm-updates/2.6.35 >> >> to receive a bunch of KVM fixes for 2.6.35-rc2, including a workaround for a >> cpu erratum that can allow a guest to crash the host. >> > Hmm. This looks bigger than I'd wish for at this point. I'll be > offline starting Saturday, so I want -rc3 (on Friday evening) to be in > as well-known a state as humanly possible. Which is why I've been > pushing back a lot on anything that isn't absolutely essential. > Ok. I've dropped the SRAO patch; this still leaves ~100 changed lines, but they are almost all due to the erratum 383 workaround, which can result in a guest killing the host. The rest of the patches are less critical, but they are one liners and I am comfortable with them in -rc3. The new diffstat also shows no changes to core code: arch/ia64/kvm/kvm-ia64.c | 1 + arch/powerpc/kvm/e500.c | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h | 1 + arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 5 ++ arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 96 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- virt/kvm/ioapic.c | 3 +- virt/kvm/iommu.c | 2 +- 7 files changed, 106 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.