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Re: [Xen-devel] preparations for 4.11.2


  • To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 16:23:12 +0100
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On 16/05/2019 16:20, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 16.05.19 at 17:11, <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 26/04/2019 13:02, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>>> On 26/04/2019 12:59, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>>>> On 18/03/2019 16:13, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>> All,
>>>>>
>>>>> the release is due by the end of the month, but will likely don't make
>>>>> it before early April. Please point out backports you find missing from
>>>>> the respective staging branch, but which you consider relevant. The
>>>>> one commit I've queued already on top of what was just pushed is
>>>>>
>>>>> 22e2f8dddf        x86/e820: fix build with gcc9
>>>> ffb60a58df48419c1f2607cd3cc919fa2bfc9c2d "tools/misc/xenpm: fix getting
>>>> info when some CPUs are offline" for 4.11 and earlier.
>>> Oh, and 677e64dbe315343620c3b266e9eb16623b118038 "tools/ocaml: Dup2
>>> /dev/null to stdin in daemonize()" again for 4.12 and earlier.
>> In addition,
>>
>> 2ec5339ec921 "tools/libxl: correct vcpu affinity output with sparse
>> physical cpu map"
>> 129025fe3093 "oxenstored: Don't re-open a xenctrl handle for every
>> domain introduction"
>> 7b20a865bc10 "tools/ocaml: Release the global lock before invoking block
>> syscalls"
>> c393b64dcee6 "tools/libxc: Fix issues with libxc and Xen having
>> different featureset lengths"
>> 82855aba5bf9 "tools/libxc: Fix error handling in get_cpuid_domain_info()"
>> 48dab9767d2e "tools/xl: use libxl_domain_info to get domain type for
>> vcpu-pin"
>>
>> 365aabb6e502 "tools/libxendevicemodel: add
>> xendevicemodel_modified_memory_bulk to map" is possibly a candidate, but
>> is also complicated by the stable SONAME.  It is perhaps easiest to
>> ignore, seeing as the issue has already gone unnoticed for 2 years.
> Unless these are really urgent to put in, I'd like them to be deferred
> to 4.11.3. With XSA-297 out we've already started the (leaf tree)
> tagging process, so I was really hoping to get this much delayed
> release out rather sooner than later.

At a minimum, ffb60a58df4 and ffb60a58df4 need backporting, because they
are breakage of tools caused by our recommendation to turn off SMT in
recent XSAs.

Everything else can be deferred if necessary.

~Andrew

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