linux-kernel - Re: KVM patches applied in weird order in -stable

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Date:   Tue, 13 Sep 2016 18:58:40 +0200
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: KVM patches applied in weird order in -stable



On 13/09/2016 18:57, Greg KH wrote:
>>>> > >>  [0] commit 4e422bdd2f84 ("KVM: x86: fix missed hardware breakpoints")
>>>> > >>  [1] commit 172b2386ed16 ("KVM: x86: fix missed hardware breakpoints")
>>>> > >>  [2] commit 70e4da7a8ff6 ("KVM: x86: fix root cause for missed hardware breakpoints")
>>>> > >>
>>>> > >> but this is the order for linux-4.4.y
>>>> > >>
>>>> > >>  [1] commit fc90441e728a ("KVM: x86: fix missed hardware breakpoints")
>>>> > >>  [2] commit 25e8618619a5 ("KVM: x86: fix root cause for missed hardware breakpoints")
>>>> > >>  [0] commit 0f6e5e26e68f ("KVM: x86: fix missed hardware breakpoints")
>>>> > >>
>>>> > >> The upshot is that KVM_DEBUGREG_RELOAD is always set when returning
>>>> > >> from kvm_arch_vcpu_load() in stable, but not in Linus' tree.
>>> > > 
>>> > > How would applying these in a different order cause breakage?
>> > 
>> > [2] is reverting [0]+[1].  Stable is not due to the different order.
> Really?  Are you sure that [0] and [1] isn't just the same commit?  It
> looks like that to me.

It is; "git" automatically resolved the conflicts when merging [1], and
then [2] reverted the change.  In stable, changing the order created a
different conflict resolution.

Paolo