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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] KVM: x86/xen: ignore the VCPU_SSHOTTMR_future flag
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On Wed, Oct 04, 2023, Paul Durrant wrote:
> From: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>
>
> Upstream Xen now ignores this flag [1], since the only guest kernel ever to
> use it was buggy. By ignoring the flag the guest will always get a callback
> if it sets a negative timeout which upstream Xen has determined not to
> cause problems for any guest setting the flag.
>
> [1] https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=commitdiff;h=19c6cbd909
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>
> Reviewed-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
> ---
> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
> Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
> Cc: x86@kernel.org

If you're going to manually Cc folks, put the Cc's in the changelog proper so that
there's a record of who was Cc'd on the patch.

Or even better, just use scripts/get_maintainers.pl and only manually Cc people
when necessary.

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