This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    KVM: PPC: Emulate dcbf

to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     kvm-ppc-emulate-dcbf.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From 1a14c25a0b523225ba47a983d094d1b253f2585a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Graf <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:50:25 +0100
Subject: KVM: PPC: Emulate dcbf

From: Alexander Graf <[email protected]>

commit d3286144c92ec876da9e30320afa875699b7e0f1 upstream.

Guests can trigger MMIO exits using dcbf. Since we don't emulate cache
incoherent MMIO, just do nothing and move on.

Reported-by: Ben Collins <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Ben Collins <[email protected]>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>
Cc: Qiang Huang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 arch/powerpc/kvm/emulate.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/emulate.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/emulate.c
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
 #define OP_TRAP_64 2
 
 #define OP_31_XOP_LWZX      23
+#define OP_31_XOP_DCBF      86
 #define OP_31_XOP_LBZX      87
 #define OP_31_XOP_STWX      151
 #define OP_31_XOP_STBX      215
@@ -373,6 +374,7 @@ int kvmppc_emulate_instruction(struct kv
                        kvmppc_set_exit_type(vcpu, EMULATED_MTSPR_EXITS);
                        break;
 
+               case OP_31_XOP_DCBF:
                case OP_31_XOP_DCBI:
                        /* Do nothing. The guest is performing dcbi because
                         * hardware DMA is not snooped by the dcache, but


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.4/s390-kvm-dont-announce-rrbm-support.patch
queue-3.4/kvm-ppc-emulate-dcbf.patch
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