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Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 21:19:13 -0300
From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm: move advertising of KVM_CAP_IRQFD to common code
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On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 11:54:46AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> POWER supports irqfds but forgot to advertise them.  Some userspace does
> not check for the capability, but others check it---thus they work on
> x86 and s390 but not POWER.
> 
> To avoid that other architectures in the future make the same mistake, let
> common code handle KVM_CAP_IRQFD the same way as KVM_CAP_IRQFD_RESAMPLE.
> 
> Reported-by: Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: 297e21053a52f060944e9f0de4c64fad9bcd72fc
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> ---
> 	Marcelo, please apply this for 4.0.

Applied, thanks.