[for-4.19 0/2] backport "KVM: arm64: limit PMU version to PMUv3 for ARMv8.1"

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Thu Nov 30 05:40:53 PST 2023


On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 08:00:08PM +0800, Zenghui Yu wrote:
> On 2023/11/28 16:12, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 03:46:31PM +0800, Zenghui Yu wrote:
> > > We need to backport patch #1 as well because it introduced a helper used
> > > by patch #2.
> > > 
> > > Andrew Murray (2):
> > >   arm64: cpufeature: Extract capped perfmon fields
> > >   KVM: arm64: limit PMU version to PMUv3 for ARMv8.1
> > 
> > We can not just take these in an old stable tree and not newer ones as
> > that would mean you could upgrade and have a regression.  Please provide
> > backports for all applicable stable trees and we will be glad to take
> > them.
> 
> Thanks for the heads up! "for-5.4" patches sent now.

Great, all now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h



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