From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5736ACA9EA0 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2019 08:02:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AB7A214AF for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2019 08:02:25 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1572249745; bh=KuLjpqvbGMtLUlNc5kaoR6YIjcyREiGv1q4fu5cS1Ak=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=ZLWXpvoWKusrQVI32zG4NdoMmKtQHPAE5gz0vK4lnEjsJl9Ux5Er3mxjlbRPK3AXW rKquVZsVitfIflpwBfGohYJFhHty70ktj0u2EWBi/e8sqGVkWOXD5Z6TtFr5gWfhym /6q2TY/K3FRUnBPzXsCrdwF5+SLVVTIFSsyGn3jg= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1731405AbfJ1ICY (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Oct 2019 04:02:24 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:45518 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1730328AbfJ1ICY (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Oct 2019 04:02:24 -0400 Received: from localhost (unknown [91.217.168.176]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 47DB120862; Mon, 28 Oct 2019 08:02:23 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1572249743; bh=KuLjpqvbGMtLUlNc5kaoR6YIjcyREiGv1q4fu5cS1Ak=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=G0s2Mz00gd0TJaorDXv098tL6oibTl1MVsC5aqs1AmlXJ2/v5v2aMW92DdobIt2vH 8iwPoE63nv6SkXiWQf+ARi4Nzym8RMF5TM26GsvGCmxLalkZNuQbWULECL/kcPCAYK cBhUL+esadSCp39Vvt1uiALdImM8eQOKF6Il7wfQ= Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 04:02:20 -0400 From: Sasha Levin To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, Joerg Roedel Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: vmx, svm: always run with EFER.NXE=1 when shadow paging is active Message-ID: <20191028080220.GH1560@sasha-vm> References: <20191027152323.24326-1-pbonzini@redhat.com> <20191028065919.AB8C3208C0@mail.kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 08:56:26AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >On 28/10/19 07:59, Sasha Levin wrote: >> >> This commit has been processed because it contains a -stable tag. >> The stable tag indicates that it's relevant for the following trees: all >> >> The bot has tested the following trees: v5.3.7, v4.19.80, v4.14.150, v4.9.197, v4.4.197. >> >> v5.3.7: Build OK! >> v4.19.80: Failed to apply! Possible dependencies: >> Unable to calculate >> >> v4.14.150: Failed to apply! Possible dependencies: >> Unable to calculate >> >> v4.9.197: Failed to apply! Possible dependencies: >> Unable to calculate >> >> v4.4.197: Failed to apply! Possible dependencies: >> Unable to calculate >> >> >> NOTE: The patch will not be queued to stable trees until it is upstream. >> >> How should we proceed with this patch? > >It should apply just fine to all branches, just to arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c >instead of arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c. I wonder if we should be carrying symlinks in the stable branches to make this smoother... -- Thanks, Sasha