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

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 10:34 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> 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.

Thanks, I collapsed both entries into 
    * address PoD problems with early host side accesses to guest
      address space (Jan Beulich, patch posted)

although I expect it will be DONE by the time I repost next week...

Ian.


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