[PATCH v3 7/9] KVM: PPC: Ultravisor: Restrict LDBAR access

Ram Pai linuxram at us.ibm.com
Sun Jun 16 11:10:28 AEST 2019


On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 05:43:34PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 02:36:12PM -0300, Claudio Carvalho wrote:
> > When the ultravisor firmware is available, it takes control over the
> > LDBAR register. In this case, thread-imc updates and save/restore
> > operations on the LDBAR register are handled by ultravisor.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Claudio Carvalho <cclaudio at linux.ibm.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram at us.ibm.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus at ozlabs.org>
> 
> Just a note on the signed-off-by: it's a bit weird to have Ram's
> signoff when he is neither the author nor the sender of the patch.
> The author is assumed to be Claudio; if that is not correct then the
> patch should have a From: line at the start telling us who the author
> is, and ideally that person should have a signoff line before
> Claudio's signoff as the sender of the patch.

Ryan originally wrote this patch, which I than modified,
before Claudio further modified it to its current form.

So I think the author should be Ryan.

RP



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