Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.6 Development Update (five months reminder, 5 WEEKS TO FREEZE)

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 23.06.15 at 11:45, <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We seem to have gone off list -- not on purpose I think?

No, sorry - when I trimmed the Cc list I trimmed it a little too much.
Re-added.

Jan

> On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 10:20 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> >>> On 23.06.15 at 11:16, <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 03:37:45PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> >> >>> On 05.06.15 at 15:53, <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> > == Hypervisor ==
>> >> 
>> >> What I seem to be missing in this section are the ticket lock patches
>> >> which got temporarily reverted (and should imo go in again rather
>> >> sooner than later).
>> >> 
>> > 
>> > Now tracked.
>> > 
>> > I agree it should go in sooner rather than later. As I understand it the
>> > issue (netback hotplug script issue) that caused that series to be
>> > reverted has been solved.
>> 
>> I think it is only slowly finding its way into stable Linux releases.
> 
> 
> In terms of releases I've seen 3.14.45 with it in was released this
> morning, which is the tree that will be used for x86 tests by default.
> I've had a mail saying it has been added to the 3.16.7-ckt queue and
> will be in 3.16.7-ckt14, but I've no info on when that will be released,
> I've not seen an associated patchbomb yet.
> 
> ARM testing currently uses 3.16 so that's the one we really care about
> here (since it was arm which was failing). Since we have our own
> linux-xen-arm tree anyway (which I'd forgotten until yesterday) perhaps
> Stefano could add it there in the meantime?
> 
> Stefano, that's a request to backport
> 31a418986a5852034d520a5bab546821ff1ccf3d from upstream into the
> linux-xen-arm tree (sorry I should have thought of this yesterday when
> you were pulling the latest cktN in).
> 
> It's already in
> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue 
> but I think it would be better not to wait.
> 
> Ian.




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