[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 0/2] extend page_track for external usage

Zhenyu Wang zhenyuw at linux.intel.com
Wed Nov 9 02:03:17 UTC 2016


On 2016.11.07 10:17:54 +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> >> Paolo, for this case, do you think it's feasible we pick them through
> >> drm/i915 merge path? As currently initial KVMGT patch sets require these
> >> exported symbols, that's why I ask how we should handle this dependency.
> >
> > Then it's actually a good thing that I dropped from kvm/queue!  You can
> > certainly include these patches, but please do that through a topic branch.
> >
> > I've prepared a branch for you
> > (git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm.git branch for-kvmgt).  Once
> > Linus processes my outstanding pull request, the branch will only
> > include the three page-tracking patches.  Please pull that topic branch
> > into your own branch, and ensure you have a merge commit when you send
> > the pull request to Daniel.  The merge commit ensures that the workflow
> > was correct; use --no-ff if necessary.
> >
> > You can do the same for Jike's patches for the KVM-VFIO device, when
> > Alex reviews them, and I suppose you'll need a topic branch for mdev
> > too?  I didn't know that KVMGT was planned for 4.10.  In the future,
> > let's synchronize ahead so that we can prepare topic branches for you.
> 
> Ok, back from the useless wifi at plumbers, I can mail again. Zhenyu
> confirmed on irc that the initial code pile only needs this. For the
> cross-maintainer topic tree I prefer a formal pull request with stable
> tag. Please also cc: intel-gfx on that, since I plan to merge that one
> directly into i915.
> 

Paolo, could you help to do this for Daniel? Daniel would like to merge
current KVMGT required change for KVM directly, then I'd base KVMGT change
on that.

p.s, Daniel gave me this example https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/2015-December/082600.html,
which was for audio change merge.

Thanks

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