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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2011-05-20 15:36:52 +1000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2011-05-20 15:36:52 +1000
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Merge remote branch 'origin/master' into merge
Manual merge of arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c and add missing scheduler_ipi() call to arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/interrupt.c Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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+Review checklist for kvm patches
+================================
+
+1. The patch must follow Documentation/CodingStyle and
+ Documentation/SubmittingPatches.
+
+2. Patches should be against kvm.git master branch.
+
+3. If the patch introduces or modifies a new userspace API:
+ - the API must be documented in Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
+ - the API must be discoverable using KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION
+
+4. New state must include support for save/restore.
+
+5. New features must default to off (userspace should explicitly request them).
+ Performance improvements can and should default to on.
+
+6. New cpu features should be exposed via KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID2
+
+7. Emulator changes should be accompanied by unit tests for qemu-kvm.git
+ kvm/test directory.
+
+8. Changes should be vendor neutral when possible. Changes to common code
+ are better than duplicating changes to vendor code.
+
+9. Similarly, prefer changes to arch independent code than to arch dependent
+ code.
+
+10. User/kernel interfaces and guest/host interfaces must be 64-bit clean
+ (all variables and sizes naturally aligned on 64-bit; use specific types
+ only - u64 rather than ulong).
+
+11. New guest visible features must either be documented in a hardware manual
+ or be accompanied by documentation.
+
+12. Features must be robust against reset and kexec - for example, shared
+ host/guest memory must be unshared to prevent the host from writing to
+ guest memory that the guest has not reserved for this purpose.