kvm-4.8-2
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02 Aug 09:32
VGIC implementation. - s390: support for trapping software breakpoints, nested virtualization (vSIE), the STHYI opcode, initial extensions for CPU model support. - MIPS: support for MIPS64 hosts (32-bit guests only) and lots of cleanups, preliminary to this and the upcoming support for hardware virtualization extensions. - x86: support for execute-only mappings in nested EPT; reduced vmexit latency for TSC deadline timer (by about 30%) on Intel hosts; support for more than 255 vCPUs. - PPC: bugfixes. The ugly bit is the conflicts. A couple of them are simple conflicts due to 4.7 fixes, but most of them are with other trees. There was definitely too much reliance on Acked-by here. Some conflicts are for KVM patches where _I_ gave my Acked-by, but the worst are for this pull request's patches that touch files outside arch/*/kvm. KVM submaintainers should probably learn to synchronize better with arch maintainers, with the latter providing topic branches whenever possible instead of Acked-by. This is what we do with arch/x86. And I should learn to refuse pull requests when linux-next sends scary signals, even if that means that submaintainers have to rebase their branches. Anyhow, here's the list: - arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c: handle_pcommit and EXIT_REASON_PCOMMIT was removed by the nvdimm tree. This tree adds handle_preemption_timer and EXIT_REASON_PREEMPTION_TIMER at the same place. In general all mentions of pcommit have to go. There is also a conflict between a stable fix and this patch, where the stable fix removed the vmx_create_pml_buffer function and its call. - virt/kvm/kvm_main.c: kvm_cpu_notifier was removed by the hotplug tree. This tree adds kvm_io_bus_get_dev at the same place. - virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c: a few final bugfixes went into 4.7 before the file was completely removed for 4.8. - include/linux/irqchip/arm-gic-v3.h: this one is entirely our fault; this is a change that should have gone in through the irqchip tree and pulled by kvm-arm. I think I would have rejected this kvm-arm pull request. The KVM version is the right one, except that it lacks GITS_BASER_PAGES_SHIFT. - arch/powerpc: what a mess. For the idle_book3s.S conflict, the KVM tree is the right one; everything else is trivial. In this case I am not quite sure what went wrong. The commit that is causing the mess (fd7bacbca47a, "KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix TB corruption in guest exit path on HMI interrupt", 2016-05-15) touches both arch/powerpc/kernel/ and arch/powerpc/kvm/. It's large, but at 396 insertions/5 deletions I guessed that it wasn't really possible to split it and that the 5 deletions wouldn't conflict. That wasn't the case. - arch/s390: also messy. First is hypfs_diag.c where the KVM tree moved some code and the s390 tree patched it. You have to reapply the relevant part of commits 6c22c9863760, plus all of e030c1125eab, to arch/s390/kernel/diag.c. Or pick the linux-next conflict resolution from http://marc.info/?l=kvm&m=146717549531603&w=2. Second, there is a conflict in gmap.c between a stable fix and 4.8. The KVM version here is the correct one. I have pushed my resolution at refs/heads/merge-20160802 (commit 3d1f53419842) at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm.git.