Re: [PATCH 0/3] KVM: Make kvm_lock non-raw

From: Gleb Natapov
Date: Mon Sep 23 2013 - 10:59:33 EST


On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 03:44:21PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 23/09/2013 15:36, Paul Gortmaker ha scritto:
> >> > The change is not completely trivial, it splits lock. There is no
> >> > obvious problem of course, otherwise you wouldn't send it and I
> >> > would ack it :), but it does not mean that the chance for problem is
> >> > zero, so why risk stability of stable even a little bit if the patch
> >> > does not fix anything in stable?
> >> >
> >> > I do not know how -rt development goes and how it affects decisions for
> >> > stable acceptance, why can't they carry the patch in their tree until
> >> > they move to 3.12?
> > The -rt tree regularly carries mainline backports that are of interest
> > to -rt but perhaps not of interest to stable, so there is no problem
> > doing the same with content like this, if desired.
>
> Perfect, I'll queue [v2 of] these patches for 3.12 then.
>
Why 3.12 if it is not going to stable?

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Gleb.
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