Re: [PATCH for 3.14.y stable 00/32] Backport fixes of KVM/ARM to 3.14.y stable kernel

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 10:47:55PM +0800, shannon.zhao@linaro.org wrote:
> From: Shannon Zhao <shannon.zhao@linaro.org>
> 
> For KVM/ARM there are many fixes which have been applied upstream while
> not committed to stable kernels. Here we backport the important fixes
> to 3.14.y stable kernel.
> 
> We have compile-tested each patch on arm/arm64/x86 to make sure the
> series are bisectable and have booted the resulting kernel on Fastmodel
> and started 2 VMs for arm/arm64, and have boot-tested on TC2 and
> started a guest.
> 
> These patches are applied on the top of 3.14.43.
> 
> Note in the previous mail I mention there are 9 patches which can't be
> applied cleanly, but the others except [1] are due to the contexts of
> modifications are changed, while the modifications themselves of patches
> are almost same with the upstream ones. To patch [1], since it
> requires applying full GICv3 support but it's out of the scope of stable
> kernel. So this patch has a huge modification for stable kernel
> comparing to the upstream one.
> 
> [1] ae70593 arm/arm64: KVM: Keep elrsr/aisr in sync with software model

I've applied the first 10 here, will queue up the rest for later
kernels.

thanks,

greg k-h