Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: x86: Defer vtime accounting 'til after IRQ handling" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree

[Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>]

On Thu, May 27, 2021, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 08:08:09AM +0200, Jack Wang wrote:
> > <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 于2021年5月14日周五 下午9:32写道：
> > >
> > >
> > > The patch below does not apply to the 5.10-stable tree.
> > > If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> > > tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> > > id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
> > 
> > If I first apply 866a6dadbb02 ("context_tracking: Move guest exit
> > context tracking to separate helpers")
> > and 88d8220bbf06 ("context_tracking: Move guest exit vtime accounting
> > to separate helpers")
> > 
> > then I can apply this commit cleanly to latest 5.10.y, I suppose it
> > will work for 5.12.

Thanks much!

> That worked, thanks!  Now queued up.

To not mess up in the future, I assume known dependencies should be tagged
"Cc: stable...", even if the dependencies aren't technically bug fixes?
The plan all along was that all three patches would have to be picked up, but
apparently I thought that would happen automagically.