Re: [Xen-devel] preparations for 4.11.1 and 4.8.5

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 07.11.18 at 16:03, <Stewart.Hildebrand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Monday, October 8, 2018 9:06 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> both releases are due in about a month's time. Please point out
>> backports you find missing from their respective staging branches,
>> but which you consider relevant. On top of what I've just pushed
>> there I have
>> 
>> 2fb57e4bee      x86: silence false log messages for plain "xpti" / "pv-l1tf"
>> 51e0cb4593      x86: split opt_xpti
>> 0b89643ef6      x86: split opt_pv_l1tf
>> 8743d2dea5      x86: fix "xpti=" and "pv-l1tf=" yet again
>> e30c47cd8b      vtd: add missing check for shared EPT...
>> 
>> queued already - no need to point these out separately.
>> 
>> I've noticed only now that even 4.8.4 has gone out already after
>> its full support time period was over, due to the significant delay
>> between its preparations announcement and it actually having
>> become ready. Since its tree was maintained as if another stable
>> release would be done, I think we will want to cut such a release.
>> In that event, 4.8.5 is going to be the last XenProject coordinated
>> release from that branch. If we decide otherwise, we'd then
>> announce after the fact that 4.8.4 actually was.
> 
> Are you still entertaining backports for 4.8.x?

Only rather important ones at this point, I would say. It's been a full
month since I had asked, and the release is to be cut soon.

> Also, are we interested in being able to build 4.8.x with newer gcc?

That's a nice-to-have, but not more. However, ...

> If so, the following for xen 4.8.x:
> f49fa658    tools:misc:xenlockprof: fix possible format string overflow
> 796dea37    tools: include sys/sysmacros.h on Linux
> 7dc15bd7    tools: fix several "format-truncation" warnings with GCC 7

... tools things are to be decided by Ian and ...

> And the following for qemu-xen 4.8.x:
> 6511713c    memfd: fix configure test
> e05274ac    blkdebug: Catch bs->exact_filename overflow
> 2d4685f6    blkverify: Catch bs->exact_filename overflow
> c089583e    usb: Fix build with newer gcc
> e8044943    slirp/smb: Replace constant strings by glib string

... qemu-xen things by Stefano/Anthony, and especially here I'm
not sure we've done any such backporting in the past.

Jan



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