Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] s390x/ais: for 2.10 stable: disable ais facility

[Cornelia Huck]

On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 08:47:41 +0200
Christian Borntraeger <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 09/21/2017 10:26 PM, Michael Roth wrote:
> > Quoting Michael Roth (2017-09-21 11:50:28)  
> >> Quoting Cornelia Huck (2017-09-21 10:21:42)  
> >>> On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 17:14:46 +0200
> >>> Christian Borntraeger <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>>  
> >>>> The migration interface for ais was introduced with kernel 4.13
> >>>> but the capability itself had been active since 4.12. As migration
> >>>> support is considered necessary lets disable ais in the 2.10
> >>>> stable version. A proper fix and re-enablement will be done
> >>>> for qemu 2.11.  
> >>>
> >>> Also now with qemu-devel on cc:
> >>>
> >>> So, should I apply to s390-next? Or can this be applied just to stable?  
> >>
> >> Ideally we would get it in master or at least a branch that'll
> >> eventually get pulled so we can reference the upstream commit ID.
> >> It's not set in stone, but usually only patches specifically ported
> >> to stable are applied directly.  
> > 
> > Somehow I missed the "for 2.10 stable" in the subject line. I can apply
> > this directly if it comes to that, but it seems safer to apply this
> > upstream as well in the meantime, IMO. If the proper fix didn't make
> > 2.11 for whatever reason we'd still be okay with 2.10.1<->2.11, for
> > instance.
> >   
> 
> So what about the following. We will schedule this disable patch also for
> current master. Whenever we have a proper fix we can then revert/fixup the
> disable patch. This patch will then be backported to 2.10.1
> For 2.11 we then fixup the ais code and also add the "disable ais for compat
> machines" patch.

Sounds good. I'll queue this one and send a pull request, just to be on
the safe side.