Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Per-VCPU MSR bitmaps patches - topic branch for x86/pti

From: Radim KrÄmÃÅ
Date: Thu Feb 01 2018 - 10:58:56 EST


2018-01-31 20:48-0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 04:09:21PM -0500, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > David and others,
> >
> > the following changes since commit ba804bb4b72e57374b5f567b783aa0298fba0ce6:
> >
> > Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net (2018-01-26 09:03:16 -0800)
> >
> > are available in the git repository at:
> >
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm.git msr-bitmaps
> >
> > for you to fetch changes up to 904e14fb7cb96401a7dc803ca2863fd5ba32ffe6:
> >
> > KVM: VMX: make MSR bitmaps per-VCPU (2018-01-26 22:59:32 +0100)
> >
> > The patches are on top of Linus's tree and I checked that they apply okay
> > on top of the latest 4.14 tree as well as required for tip x86/pti.
> > One extra commit is needed that is pretty safe and would have been merged
> > for 4.16 anyway.
> >
> > Radim, please pull this into kvm.git too. As before I've placed my
> > resolution on kvm.git, branch refs/heads/msr-bitmaps-merge-resolution.
> > It's based on kvm/next this time.
>
> You don't want folks to review patch #2 and #3 first? There are tons
> of people that I am sure would be thrilled with the whole Spectra circus.

This is only a boring prerequisite that doesn't add any security ...
Jim Mattson gave r-b to [v1 3/3] and was a significant contributor to
the patches, David Hildenbrandt reviewed [v2 2,3/3] and there have been
only minor changes since.

v3 looks good to me, so I'll pull if there are no more requirements from
pti.