On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 09:56:36PM -0300, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote:
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> Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.ibm.com> writes:
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> > The ARM code has a start-powered-off property in ARMCPU, which is a
> > subclass of CPUState. This property causes arm_cpu_reset() to set
> > CPUState::halted to 1, signalling that the CPU should start in a halted
> > state. Other architectures also have code which aim to achieve the same
> > effect, but without using a property.
> >
> > The ppc/spapr version has a bug where QEMU does a KVM_RUN on the vcpu
> > before cs->halted is set to 1, causing the vcpu to run while it's still in
> > an unitialized state (more details in patch 3).
>
> Since this series fixes a bug is it eligible for 5.1, at least the
> patches that were already approved by the appropriate maintainers?
Ok by me.
Maybe just the arm generalization and ppc fix for 5.1, delaying all not bugfix to 5.2?