Re: [Xen-devel] 4.2.0-rc4 bug: memory events for CR3 register are broken (working in 4.1.3)

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 18.09.12 at 16:30, Navin Patel <navinjpatel336@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Keir,
> 
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>  Keep an eye on xen-unstable and make sure the patch, or equivalent, goes
>> in in the next week or two. Once itâs in you can request it be backported.
>>
>>  -- Keir
>>
>>
>> On 16/09/2012 19:35, "Navin Patel" <navinjpatel336@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Keir and Steven,
>>
>> Thank you for your work. The proposed patch solved the bug!
>>
>> After 4.2.0 is officially released this week, I very much hope that this
>> patch is backported to the 4.2.0 tree. Several distributions like Debian
>> are already building upon 4.2.0 and will not wait for 4.2.1, and without
>> the patch being backported, researchers like me will not be able to use the
>> supported Xen from package repository.  We can compile from source, but if
>> we have a supported version it is better for everyone. (And it is such a
>> simple patch! )
>>
>> Is this something I can request in formal manner?
>>
>>  Now that this patch is in xen-unstable.hg, I would like to request that
> it be backported to 4.2.0 as we discussed.

I'll take care of this shortly (assuming it's 25918:7ab899e46347
you're talking about), but obviously this is only going to be for
4.2.1 (despite your hopes/wishes), as Keir already indicated.

Jan

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