NAK: [J][PATCH 0/2][v2] KVM: Improve SIGP architectural compliance (LP: 1959735)

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzysztof.kozlowski at canonical.com
Fri Feb 4 14:17:43 UTC 2022


On 04/02/2022 15:11, frank.heimes at canonical.com wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1959735
> 
> Linux as a guest operating system often doesn't have as stringent requirements
> to architectural compliance as traditional operating systems that rely on it. 
> Specifically, KVM implements the SIGP RESTART in a non-compliant way, 
> as it reports a CPU state to be stopped after SIGP RESTART was issued, 
> while it should report a busy condition until the CPU is really started.
> This feature covers the necessary fixes/improvements to KVM SIGP processing.
> 
> v2: fixed hash, cherry picked from linux (instead of linux-next), based on 5.15.0-20.20
> 

Order is still wrong. First go "Simplify..." patch, then "Add a routing
for...".


Best regards,
Krzysztof



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