[MODERATED] Re: The Annnoying Affair has No eXcuses - Bulletin #4

Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> Sat, 09 Nov 2019 20:04:24 +0000

Newsgroups	org.kernel.lore.historical-speck
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On Sat, 2019-11-09 at 19:59 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-11-07 at 21:17 +0100, speck for Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > Folks,
> > 
> > I've picked up Paolos backports and updated the stable branches
> > linux-5.3.y, linux-4.19.y and linix-4.14.y, which also have been rebased to
> > the latest stable versions.
> > 
> > The changes are available as usual from:
> > 
> >   cvs.ou.linutronix.de:linux/speck/linux  
> > 
> > Git bundles for the linux-5.3.y, linux-4.19.y and linix-4.14.y branches
> > against their upstream versions are attached.
> 
> Comparing my linux-4.19.y branch with yours:
> 
> - "KVM: x86: adjust kvm_mmu_page member to save 8 bytes"
>   OK, that's not important.
> + "KVM: x86: use Intel speculation bugs and features as derived in generic x86 code"
>   Probably a worthwhile improvement.  I don't know.
> + "x86/cpu: Add Tremont to the cpu vulnerability whitelist"
>   OK, also not important.
> + "x86/speculation/taa: Fix printing of TAA_MSG_SMT on IBRS_ALL CPUs"
> 
> and beyond that there are small differences in member ordering in
> struct kvm_mmu_page and whitespace.
> 
> Comparing my linux-4.14.y branch with yours, there are the same
> differences plus:
> 
> - "KVM: MMU: drop vcpu param in gpte_access" (commit 42522d08cdba)
>   I think you should add this.

One more thing: the "commit […] upstream" lines in stable c
ommit messages normally have a full stop/period after "upstream".

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
                                                      - Albert Einstein

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