[PATCH 0/5] KVM/ARM: Fixes for 4.12-rc1

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Tue May 2 08:00:49 PDT 2017


On 02/05/17 15:44, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 02/05/2017 15:30, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> Here's a handful of random fixes I've queued locally that didn't have
>> a chance to make it in 4.11.
>>
>> The first two patches avoid stack-protector messing with the HYP code,
>> as this ends up being a complete disaster.
>>
>> The following two patches fix a bug introduced in the new vgic, where
>> we may queue HW interrupts with the Pending+Active state, which is
>> illegal.
>>
>> The final patch fixes a misinterpretation of the spec, where we
>> compute the number of APxRn register based on the number of priorities
>> instead of using the number of preemption levels.
>>
>> I've tagged the first 4 patches for stable, given that we're doing
>> something potentially harmful. The last patch is more of a theoretical
>> issue at this stage, so probably need for a backport.
> 
> Would you like me to apply them, or are you looking for reviews and
> going to send them in a pull request?
> 
> I can wait a couple days before sending my own pull request to Linus.

Christoffer is in charge of the tree at the moment, so I'll leave it up
to him to decide. But my guess is that he will send a PR some time
later, with the rest of the fixes that have been posted lately.

Thanks,

	M.
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