Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 3/4] s390x/kvm: rework KVM synchronize to tracing for some ONEREGS

[Alexander Graf]

On 25.04.14 14:24, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> On 25/04/14 14:04, Alexander Graf wrote:
> > On 25.04.14 14:02, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > > From: Christian Borntraeger <address@hidden>
> > >
> > > Some ONE_REGS on s390 are not protected by a capability. Older kernels
> > > might not provide those and return an error. Fortunately these registers
> > > are only critical for the migration path. There is no need to error out
> > > on reset and normal runtime. Furthermore, these kernels don't provide
> > > a proper dirty bitmap anyway, so let's use tracing for those errors.
> > >
> > > Also provide generic one reg helper to simplify the code.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <address@hidden>
> > > Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <address@hidden>
> > > Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <address@hidden>
> > CC stable?
> Makes sense. get_registers is fine as the ONE_REGS are at the end of the 
> function,
> but put_registers will not store the SREGS and the prefix in that case.
>
> I guess its ok to send the patch and the commit id to qemu stable after
> this hits master?

The "normal process" is that the maintainer adds a CC: line to the 
commit when he puts it into his queue. That way git-send-email 
automatically CCs stable and there's proper documentation of this in the 
master tree.

But of course doing it manually also works.


Alex