Re: [Xen-devel] 4.2 TODO / Release Plan

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 14.08.12 at 11:02, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 08:05 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> - address PoD problems with early host side accesses to guest
>>   address space (draft patch for 4.0.x exists, needs to be ported
>>   over to -unstable, which I'll expect to get to today)
> 
> Is this the same as one of the two existing PoD entries? Expecting not
> I'll include it separately today (I'm going to post the update very
> shortly) and we can reconcile any duplication for next week.
> 
> Hypervisor:
>     * [BUG(?)] Under certain conditions, the p2m_pod_sweep code will
>       stop halfway through searching, causing a guest to crash even if
>       there was zeroed memory available.  This is NOT a regression
>       from 4.1, and is a very rare case, so probably shouldn't be a
>       blocker.  (In fact, I'd be open to the idea that it should wait
>       until after the release to get more testing.)
>                   (George Dunlap)
> 
> Tools:
>     * [BUG(?)] If domain 0 attempts to access a guests' memory before
>       it is finished being built, and it is being built in PoD mode,
>       this may cause the guest to crash.  Again, this is NOT a
>       regression from 4.1.  Furthermore, it's only been reported
>       (AIUI) by a customer of SuSE; so it shoudn't be a blocker.
>       (Again, I'd be open to the idea that it should wait until after
>       the release to get more testing.)
>                 (George Dunlap / Jan Beulich)

It's the same as this second entry, albeit the fix is not limited to
the tools. Patch posted a few minutes ago.

Jan


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