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

[Stewart Hildebrand <Stewart.Hildebrand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, October 8, 2018 9:06 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> All,
> 
> 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.
> 
> Jan

Hi Jan,

Are you still entertaining backports for 4.8.x?
Also, are we interested in being able to build 4.8.x with newer gcc?

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

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

I tested these on staging-4.8, built for aarch64.
If the answer to either of the questions above is "no" then please disregard.

Regards,
Stew
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