linux-kernel - Re: Patch "KVM: VMX: avoid double list add with VT-d posted interrupts" has been added to the 4.13-stable tree

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Message-ID: <20171004003021.11df674e@mir>
Date:   Wed, 4 Oct 2017 00:30:21 +0200
From:   Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.l-h@....de>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        arei.gonglei@...wei.com, longpeng2@...wei.com, rkrcmar@...hat.com,
        wangxinxin.wang@...wei.com, weidong.huang@...wei.com,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch "KVM: VMX: avoid double list add with VT-d posted
 interrupts" has been added to the 4.13-stable tree

Hi

On 2017-10-03, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 03/10/2017 09:46, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
> > On 2017-10-02, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org wrote:  
> >> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> >>
> >>     KVM: VMX: avoid double list add with VT-d posted interrupts
> >>
> >> to the 4.13-stable tree which can be found at:
> >>     http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> >>
> >> The filename of the patch is:
> >>      kvm-vmx-avoid-double-list-add-with-vt-d-posted-interrupts.patch
> >> and it can be found in the queue-4.13 subdirectory.  
> > 
> > This patch, as part of the current queue-4.13, breaks the build on
> > i386 (amd64/ x86_64 builds fine):
[...]
> There is another patch in the kvm tree to fix it, I'll send it to stable
> immediately.

Thanks, I can confirm this to work in 4.13.5-rc1 (including 
"KVM: VMX: use cmpxchg64") for i386 and x86_64.

Unrelated to this specific, solved, issue I can confirm kernel 
4.9.53-rc1 to build and boot on armhf (ipq8065) and 4.4.90-rc1
on mips (ar71xx).

Thanks a lot, regards
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann