linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] KVM changes for 3.17-rc4

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Message-ID: <540A267E.1070002@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 05 Sep 2014 23:09:18 +0200
From:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...nel.org>, KVM list <kvm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] KVM changes for 3.17-rc4

Il 05/09/2014 22:58, Thomas Gleixner ha scritto:
> Nothing new there. Forgot to push out, or perhaps to use "-f" to
> overwrite the previous tag of the same name?

It's there now.  Probably a --dry-run too much (I have
push=+refs/tags/for-linus:refs/tags/for-linus in the remote configuration).

> And even if there would be something, please do not pull the top most
> commit b11ba8c62be3eb (KVM: x86: fix kvmclock breakage from timers
> branch merge).
> 
> That one is blantanly wrong and just hacks badly around a brown
> paperbag bug in the core timekeeping code, which I introduced in the
> last overhaul.

It's not wrong, it's just different.  The commit message says clearly
that besides acting as a workaround, I find the patched code easier to
understand, and I clearly stated the same in the tag message.

Paolo
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