linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH MANUALSEL 5.10 1/2] KVM: x86: lapic: don't touch irr_pending in kvm_apic_update

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Date:   Tue, 26 Jul 2022 18:29:53 +0200
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@...wei.com>
Cc:     Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@...hat.com>,
        tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, bp@...en8.de,
        dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com, x86@...nel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH MANUALSEL 5.10 1/2] KVM: x86: lapic: don't touch
 irr_pending in kvm_apic_update_apicv when inhibiting it

On 7/26/22 01:49, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2022, Zenghui Yu wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 2022/3/2 1:10, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>> On 2/22/22 15:05, Sasha Levin wrote:
>>>> From: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@...hat.com>
>>>>
>>>> [ Upstream commit 755c2bf878607dbddb1423df9abf16b82205896f ]
>>>
>>> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
>>
>> What prevented it to be accepted into 5.10-stable? It can still be
>> applied cleanly on top of linux-5.10.y.
> 
> KVM opts out of the AUTOSEL logic and instead uses MANUALSEL.  The basic idea is
> the same, use scripts/magic to determine what commits that _aren't_ tagged with an
> explicit "Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org" should be backported to stable trees, the
> difference being that MANUALSEL requires an explicit Acked-by from the maintainer.

But as far as I understand it was not applied, and neither was "KVM: 
x86: nSVM: deal with L1 hypervisor that intercepts interrupts but lets 
L2 control them".

Paolo