Re: [Xen-devel] preparations for 4.11.2

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> 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.

Jan



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