Re: [PATCH] [104/223] KVM: Write protect memory after slot swap

[Avi Kivity]

On 12/13/2010 11:12 AM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >  - Greg rejects kvm patches (but not virtio etc) pointing submitters
> >  to the kvm maintainers
> >  - The kvm maintainers collect stable kvm patches and autotest them
>
> As I understand this patch came in this way for .36
> (I took it from .36-stable)

The patch was autotested for .36-stable, it wasn't autotested for 
.35-stable.  It will very likely work (this isn't code that changes a 
lot), but still.

> >  - They then submit the patches to stable@
>
> Do you want to do the autotest explicitely for .35 too and no automatic
> backports and do the same procedure as for newer kernels?
>
> I can do that, but you would need to do it for a long time.

Yes.  In fact it gets more important as time goes by, since as time goes 
by patches are more likely to cause regressions due to changes in the 
code base.

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