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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] s390/vfio-ap: r/w lock for PQAP interception handler function pointer
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On 8/20/21 6:41 PM, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 18:05:08 -0400
> Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> On 8/19/21 1:58 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>>> On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 11:54:33AM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Nope. The only requests for merges through my tree that I'm aware of
>>>> were [1] and what I understand was the evolution of that here now [2].
>>>> Maybe you're thinking of [3], which I do see in mainline where this was
>>>> 2/2 in that series but afaict only patch 1/2 was committed. I guess
>>>> that explains why there was no respin based on comments for this patch.
>>>> Thanks,
>>> Tony,
>>>
>>> If you take Alex's tree from here:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio/commits/next
>> I navigated to this URL and clicked the green 'Code'
>> button. I was given the option to download the zip file or
>> use git to checkout the code at the URL displayed
>> 'https://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio.git'. I cloned the
>> repo at that URL and the code was definitely not in any
>> way similar to my code base. In particular, the
>> arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_host.h file did not have any
>> of the crypto structures.
>>
>> I then downloaded the zip file and expanded it. The code
>> looked legitimate, but this was not a git repository, so I
>> had no way to cherry-pick my patches nor format patches
>> to post to this mailing list.
>>
>> Next, I tried cloning from
>> 'https://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio-next.git',
>> but I was prompted for uid/pw.
>>
>> So, the question is, how to I get the linux-vfio-next repo upon which I
>> can rebase my patches? I apologize for my ignorance.
> You can use git fetch to download the objects, ex:
>
> $ git fetch git://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio.git next
> $ git checkout FETCH_HEAD
>
> Or you could add a remote, ex:
>
> $ git remote add vfio git://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio.git
> $ git remote update vfio
> $ git checkout vfio/next
>
> The former might be easier and add a lot less crufty objects to your
> local tree if this is a one-off activity. Thanks,
>
> Alex

Thanks Alex, I was able to get the repo, cherry-pick my patches and
build and test the kernel. Barring any anomalies, I will be posting the
patches today.

>

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