Re: [GIT PULL] KVM updates for 2.6.35-rc2

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Thu Jun 10 2010 - 13:35:10 EST


On 06/10/2010 07:33 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:31 AM, Avi Kivity<avi@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.

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