Re: Xen 4.18 release: Reminder about feature/code freeze

[Julien Grall <julien.grall.oss@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 at 09:02, Ayan Kumar Halder <ayankuma@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Henry,

On 11/09/2023 02:08, Henry Wang wrote:
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> Hi everyone,
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> This is the reminder that we are currently in the feature freeze. I
> apologise
>
> for the delay.
>
> I decided to make the code freeze date on Fri Sep 22, 2023, to give
> people more
>
> time to react because of my late reminder about feature freeze. The
> hard code
>
> freeze date will remain unchanged, i.e. Fri Oct 6, 2023. So currently
> we have 2
>
> weeks before code freeze and another 4 weeks before hard code freeze. If
>
> everything goes well, we can cut 4.18 rc1 at Fri Sep 29, 2023.
>
> Also, below is the critical items on my list for 4.18 release:
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> 1. [PATCH 0/7] tools: More Python 3 fixes (part 1 of N)
>
> https://gitlab.com/xen-project/xen/-/issues/114
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> 2. tools: Switch to non-truncating XENVER_* ops
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/20230117135336.11662-1-andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx/
>
> 3. dom0less vs xenstored setup race Was: xen | Failed pipeline for
> staging | 6a47ba2f
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> https://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=168312468808977
> <https://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=168312468808977>
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> https://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=168312687610283
> <https://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=168312687610283>
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> 4. The proper eIBRS support for x86
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> https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/ec8e75da-743b-50dc-4665-854c446c974e@xxxxxxxxxx/
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> 5. [PATCH 1/2] credit: Limit load balancing to once per millisecond
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> https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/20230630113756.672607-1-george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxx/
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> 6. [PATCH 0/2]  Revoke IOMEM/IO port/IRQ permissions on PCI detach for
> HVM guest
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> https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/20230809103305.30561-1-julien@xxxxxxx/
>
> 7. [PATCH v2 0/8] Fixes to debugging facilities
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> https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/21cc28b9-91d1-1e6e-23ac-00c44f3ec08e@xxxxxxxxx/
>

Did you miss "[PATCH v6 00/13] xen/arm: Split MMU code as the prepration
of MPU work" ?

AFAIU Henry listed all the critical series for 4.18. Can you explain why do you think this is one?

Cheers,

It see that patches from [PATCH v6 06/13] xen/arm: Split page table
related code to mmu/pt.c ... are yet to be reviewed and committed.

- Ayan

> Kind regards,
>
> Henry
>