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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Xen 4.15 release update - still in feature freeze


  • To: Ian Jackson <iwj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <committers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2021 13:10:11 +0000
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On 15/03/2021 12:18, Ian Jackson wrote:
> OPEN ISSUES AND BLOCKERS
> ========================
>
> io-apic issue on Ryzen 1800X
> Related Qubes issue tracking this:
> https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/6423
> Information from
>   Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
>   Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
>   Frédéric Pierret <frederic.pierret@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Debugging ongoing.

> ABI stability checking
>
>    [PATCH for-4.15 00/10] tools: Support to use abi-dumper on libraries
>    [PATCH v2 for-4.15] tools/libxl: Work around unintialised variable 
> libxl__domain_get_device_model_uid()
>    etc.

The libxl thing is already committed (2ff2adc61fcfa0).

> This is testing/build work and will enable ABI checking of future
> changes to 4.15 after its release.  I don't think it's a blocker but
> it would be nice to have.
>
> My most recent impression is that there are still some loose ends
> here.

Plan 1 (committing dumps into the tree) won't work.  Plan 2 (OSSTest and
other systems doing a double checkout) probably does require a tweak or
two in 4.15 to make it easy to start in 4.16.


Also, "xenstore_lib.h and libxenstore API/ABI problems" still has work
to do for 4.15.

> ISSUES BELIEVED NEWLY RESOLVED
> ==============================
>
> Fallout from MSR handling behavioral change.
>
> I think there are now no outstanding patches to fix/change MSR
> behaviour and there is no longer any blocker here ?

Still one known issue remaining, as pointed out in Roger's summary.  I'm
still working on it.

~Andrew




 


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