Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: s390: wire up bpb feature

[Martin Schwidefsky]

On Wed, 17 Jan 2018 22:43:24 +0100
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Conny can you review and ack as well?
> 
> Paolo, Radim,
> 
> As the other patches need to sync on the ifetch/nospec/gmb naming I have changed my mind. :-)
> This patch is independent from the other patches (as it just provides the guest facilities not caring
> about what the host does).
> 
> It seems that you do a kvm pull request for 4.15 anyway (for power), so it might make sense to
> apply this patch as well for 4.15. this will make it easier to also upstream the QEMU part in time
> as we need the uabi interfaces.

Indeed, there is no real dependency. I am thinking about doing a split of my patches as well,
everything but the gmb/nospec_xxx/ifetch/isync/whatever part. The prctl part needs some more
discussion, as will prepare a patch. Or two.

-- 
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   Martin.

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