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

Zenghui Yu yuzenghui at huawei.com
Tue Nov 28 04:00:08 PST 2023


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.

Zenghui



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