[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 00/20] [uq/master] Patch queue, part V (the rest)

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:26:11PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> This series catches "all the rest" to prepare QEMU's KVM support for
> merging with qemu-kvm. IOW, once these bits here are applied, qemu-kvm
> can switch its infrastructure to upstream and is effectively only adding
> own bits for in-kernel irqchip and device assignment support.
> 
> Topics of this series are:
>  - support for optimized interrupt handling by hooking cpu_interrupt
>  - another preparational step for in-kernel irqchip support
>  - x86: Do not leave halt if interrupts are disabled
>  - mark VCPU state dirty on creation (fixed deadlock on early hw_error)
>  - complete KVM support for PAT MSR, some related improvements for TCG
>  - further consolidation of inner kvm_cpu_exec loop
>  - expose VCPU host thread ID via "info cpus" and "query-cpus"
> 
> Changes in v2:
>  - Rebased over current uq/master
>  - Build fix for MAC OS (regression of previous round)
>  - Fix for x86 hardware breakpoints in TCG mode (regression of previous
>    round)
>  - Build fix for s390 (regression of previous round)
>  - Removed premature optimization from "Install optimized interrupt
>    handlers"
>  - Keep KVM_RUN return value in separate variable (cleanup)
>  - Reorder error handling of KVM_RUN (micro-optimization)

Applied all except the two cpu interrupt handler patches, thanks.