From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
To: speck@linutronix.de
Subject: [MODERATED] Re: The Annnoying Affair has No eXcuses - Bulletin #4
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2019 20:04:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ca0827b4b2dbb6a5793aba6ca06c8b5e45eb978f.camel@decadent.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ca9bd2c36ed33ff7948d9df486d7dd7094b74a11.camel@decadent.org.uk>
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On Sat, 2019-11-09 at 19:59 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-11-07 at 21:17 +0100, speck for Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > I've picked up Paolos backports and updated the stable branches
> > linux-5.3.y, linux-4.19.y and linix-4.14.y, which also have been rebased to
> > the latest stable versions.
> >
> > The changes are available as usual from:
> >
> > cvs.ou.linutronix.de:linux/speck/linux
> >
> > Git bundles for the linux-5.3.y, linux-4.19.y and linix-4.14.y branches
> > against their upstream versions are attached.
>
> Comparing my linux-4.19.y branch with yours:
>
> - "KVM: x86: adjust kvm_mmu_page member to save 8 bytes"
> OK, that's not important.
> + "KVM: x86: use Intel speculation bugs and features as derived in generic x86 code"
> Probably a worthwhile improvement. I don't know.
> + "x86/cpu: Add Tremont to the cpu vulnerability whitelist"
> OK, also not important.
> + "x86/speculation/taa: Fix printing of TAA_MSG_SMT on IBRS_ALL CPUs"
>
> and beyond that there are small differences in member ordering in
> struct kvm_mmu_page and whitespace.
>
> Comparing my linux-4.14.y branch with yours, there are the same
> differences plus:
>
> - "KVM: MMU: drop vcpu param in gpte_access" (commit 42522d08cdba)
> I think you should add this.
One more thing: the "commit […] upstream" lines in stable c
ommit messages normally have a full stop/period after "upstream".
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-09 20:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-07 20:17 The Annnoying Affair has No eXcuses - Bulletin #4 Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-08 10:35 ` [MODERATED] " Greg KH
2019-11-09 19:59 ` Ben Hutchings
2019-11-09 20:04 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2019-11-11 11:27 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-11 13:03 ` [MODERATED] " Paolo Bonzini
2019-11-11 15:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-11-09 22:39 ` [MODERATED] " Ben Hutchings
2019-11-09 23:57 ` Ben Hutchings
2019-11-10 0:30 ` Ben Hutchings
2019-11-11 17:22 ` mark gross
2019-11-11 19:03 ` mark gross
2019-11-12 2:26 ` Pawan Gupta
2019-11-14 6:12 ` Greg KH
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