Re: [PULL 0/6] pc,vhost: fixes

[Peter Maydell]

On Thu, 3 Dec 2020 at 11:02, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 3 Dec 2020 at 10:59, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 10:20:03AM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2 Dec 2020 at 11:03, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Patch 5 gave me pause but we do need patch 6 as
> > > > it's a guest triggerable assert, and it seemed
> > > > cleaner to just take the whole patchset than cherry-pick.
> > >
> > > Is this only "fixes a guest triggerable assert"?
> >
> > My understanding is that without the patches a rhel7 guest triggers
> > the assert if started with vtd enabled and virtio-net with
> > iommu_platform=on.
> >
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1885175
>
> Bug reported in June ? Is this a regression since 5.1, or
> was it this way in 5.1 as well?

MST confirmed on IRC that this isn't a regression since 5.1,
so we'll fix it for 6.0.

thanks
-- PMM