[PATCH 5/7] KVM: arm64: Add helpers to halt a vCPU

[Marc Zyngier]

On Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:57:16 +0100,
Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba at linux.dev> wrote:
> 
> Hi Marc,
> 
> On Thu, 15 Oct 2026 11:05:37 +0100, Oliver Upton <oupton at kernel.org> wrote:
> [...]
> > Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oupton at kernel.org>
> > Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260929212925.31775-2-oupton@kernel.org
> > Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
> 
> Should this one have a Cc: stable too? Patch 6 is tagged for stable and
> calls kvm_pause_vcpu() and kvm_resume_vcpu(), so it won't build in
> stable without this patch.

My take is that there is no need to backport this patch at all. A
valid backport of patch #6 should simply halt the full VM, not just a
single vcpu.

Thanks,

	M.

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