[PATCH 0/1] Fixes for LP:#1494350

[Liang Chen]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 12:00 AM, Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-03-10 at 22:12 +0800, Liang Chen wrote:
>> Thanks a lot for nominating the affected series and take the patch! I
>> just thought it may not be critical enough to be submitted to stable.
>
> It doesn't need to be "critical" -- it just needs to fix a user-visible
> bug (and hopefully not introduce more bugs).  In my opinion, this fix
> is suitable for stable.  Stefan correctly points out that we still need
> to see a positive test result posted to the bug before proceeding.
>
Yep. Thanks for the information. I have sent the patch to stable. Hope
it get applied soon.

> Liang, can you confirm that applying:
>
> 7cae2be KVM: x86: move steal time initialization to vcpu entry time
>
> to any kernel actually fixes the bug?  Please post that to the bug
> report.
>
Yes. As I described in the bug report, it solves the overflow when applied
to trusty kernel.

> Happily, 7cae2be is a clean clean-cherry pick for >= 3.4, which is
> everywhere its needed.
>
>  -Kamal
>
>
>> And ubuntu is heavily used in cloud/visualization environment, it
>> will
>> be convenient for users to have a consistent steal_time accounting.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Liang
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 8:24 PM, Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.c
>> om> wrote:
>> >
>> > Not sure _why_ this shouldn't be submitted to stable.
>> >
>> > Kamal ?
>> >
>> > --
>> > Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com