linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] KVM: vmx, svm: always run with EFER.NXE=1 when shadow paging is active

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Message-ID: <b08a0103-312e-5441-9ffe-33c9df0a9d57@redhat.com>
Date:   Mon, 28 Oct 2019 08:56:26 +0100
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org, Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: vmx, svm: always run with EFER.NXE=1 when shadow
 paging is active

On 28/10/19 07:59, Sasha Levin wrote:
> 
> This commit has been processed because it contains a -stable tag.
> The stable tag indicates that it's relevant for the following trees: all
> 
> The bot has tested the following trees: v5.3.7, v4.19.80, v4.14.150, v4.9.197, v4.4.197.
> 
> v5.3.7: Build OK!
> v4.19.80: Failed to apply! Possible dependencies:
>     Unable to calculate
> 
> v4.14.150: Failed to apply! Possible dependencies:
>     Unable to calculate
> 
> v4.9.197: Failed to apply! Possible dependencies:
>     Unable to calculate
> 
> v4.4.197: Failed to apply! Possible dependencies:
>     Unable to calculate
> 
> 
> NOTE: The patch will not be queued to stable trees until it is upstream.
> 
> How should we proceed with this patch?

It should apply just fine to all branches, just to arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
instead of arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c.

Paolo