RE: [PATCH v19 for-4.14 00/13] VM forking

[Paul Durrant <xadimgnik@xxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tamas K Lengyel <tamas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: 01 June 2020 19:38
> To: George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> Roger Pau Monne
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v19 for-4.14 00/13] VM forking
> 
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 11:11 AM George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Jun 1, 2020, at 4:07 PM, Paul Durrant <xadimgnik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: Xen-devel <xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of 
> > >> Tamas K Lengyel
> > >> Sent: 01 June 2020 14:22
> > >> To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >> Cc: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>; Stefano Stabellini 
> > >> <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>; Tamas K
> Lengyel
> > >> <tamas.lengyel@xxxxxxxxx>; Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@xxxxxxxxx>; Wei 
> > >> Liu <wl@xxxxxxx>; Andrew
> Cooper
> > >> <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>; Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; 
> > >> George Dunlap
> > >> <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>; Tamas K Lengyel <tamas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Jan 
> > >> Beulich
> <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>;
> > >> Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx>; Julien Grall 
> > >> <julien@xxxxxxx>; Roger Pau Monné
> > >> <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >> Subject: [PATCH v19 for-4.14 00/13] VM forking
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >  This series looks to be largely un-acked so, since we are now past the 
> > > freeze date, I don't
> really think it can go into 4.14. Is there a particular reason that you think 
> it should be considered?
> >
> > Tamas’ project itself mainly uses libxc and below, as I understand; and so 
> > getting patches 1 and 2
> in would be an important milestone; both have had R-b’s before the feature 
> freeze.  Arguably patches 1
> and 2 are a bug fix.  Patch 1 is missing VMX (or a general x86).
> 
> Correct. The first two patches going in would decide whether we will
> be able to use the 4.14 release without having to carry out-of-tree
> patches. Although as things stand at the moment regarding all the bugs
> being discovered in 4.13 and 4.14 we will likely still have to
> backport all of these patches to 4.12 by hand.

That sounds like a reasonable justification.

Maintainers/committers, can we please get those patches in a.s.a.p.?

  Paul