Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/3] s390x/kvm: implement new hardware/firmware features

[Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>]

On 01/18/2018 12:53 PM, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 09:56:25 +0100
> Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
>> We want to provide more hw features to guests, namely the new bpb
>> control as well as other transparent facilities that might be
>> introduced by firmware updates (e.g. the stfle facility 81).
>>
>> See the kernel discussion for the KVM side
>> https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg2700551.html
>>
>> v2->v3: - use bool for bpbc
>> 	- sort cpu facilities
>> v1->v2: - style and comment fixes
>> 	- drop transparent facility patch
>> 	- add patch to introduce facility 81
>>
>> Christian Borntraeger (3):
>>   header sync
>>   s390x/kvm: Handle bpb feature
>>   s390x/kvm: provide stfle.81
>>
>>  linux-headers/asm-s390/kvm.h    |  9 ++++-----
>>  linux-headers/linux/kvm.h       |  5 +++--
>>  target/s390x/cpu.c              |  1 +
>>  target/s390x/cpu.h              |  1 +
>>  target/s390x/cpu_features.c     |  2 ++
>>  target/s390x/cpu_features_def.h |  2 ++
>>  target/s390x/gen-features.c     |  2 ++
>>  target/s390x/kvm.c              | 14 ++++++++++++++
>>  target/s390x/machine.c          | 17 +++++++++++++++++
>>  9 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>
> 
> Thanks, I've queued this. Once the bpb code lands in Linux, I'll
> replace patch 1 with a proper header sync and push to s390-next.

Have the x86 features been marked as stable? If the answer is yes,
shall we mark these patches for stable as well?