RE: [Xen-devel] XCP: update dom0 kernel?

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 09:09 +0100, Ian Pratt wrote:
> > >> i want to use linux md driver in xcp's dom0.
> > >> however, unfortunately the kernel shipped with xcp build20719 seems to
> > >> have a known deadlock bug and unusable for my purpose.
> > >>
> > >> in git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-
> > 2.6.git,
> > >> the bug was introduced by:
> > >>  449aad3e25358812c43afc60918c5ad3819488e7
> > >> and fixed by:
> > >>  c8c00a6915a2e3d10416e8bdd3138429beb96210
> > >>
> > >> any chance for it to be fixed for xcp soon?
> > >
> > > Thanks for the pointer -- it can definitely be fixed in the next update.
> > 
> > i heard that the next release will use the same kernel and thus will
> > have the bug intact.  it's a bit disappointing.  is it true?
> 
> XCP 0.5 will use the same 2.6.27 kernel as earlier versions, but bug fixes 
> such as this will certainly be backported to it.

I can confirm that the above fix is already in the tree which will be
used for the 0.5 release.

Ian.



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