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

[Fuad Tabba]

On Thu, 15 Oct 2026 at 14:13, Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

Makes sense, so this will be resolved on the backport itself.

/fuad

> Thanks,
>
>         M.
>
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