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kvm-4.4-2

tagged this 12 Nov 09:07
- x86: work around two nasty cases where a benign exception occurs while
another is being delivered.  The endless stream of exceptions causes an
infinite loop in the processor, which not even NMIs or SMIs can interrupt;
in the virt case, there is no possibility to exit to the host either.

- x86: support for Skylake per-guest TSC rate.  Long supported by AMD,
the patches mostly move things from there to common arch/x86/kvm/ code.

- generic: remove local_irq_save/restore from the guest entry and exit
paths when context tracking is enabled.  The patches are a few months
old, but we discussed them again at kernel summit.  Andy will pick up
from here and, in 4.5, try to remove it from the user entry/exit paths.

- PPC: Two bug fixes, see merge commit 370289756becc for details.
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