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

[Sasha Levin]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 08:56:26AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 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.

I wonder if we should be carrying symlinks in the stable branches to
make this smoother...

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Thanks,
Sasha