Re: Xen 4.18 release: Reminder about feature/code freeze

[Ayan Kumar Halder <ayankuma@amd.com>]

Hi Julien,

On 11/09/2023 09:09, Julien Grall wrote:
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> On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 at 09:02, Ayan Kumar Halder <ayankuma@amd.com> wrote:
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>     Hi Henry,
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>     On 11/09/2023 02:08, Henry Wang wrote:
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>     > Hi everyone,
>     >
>     > This is the reminder that we are currently in the feature freeze. I
>     > apologise
>     >
>     > for the delay.
>     >
>     > I decided to make the code freeze date on Fri Sep 22, 2023, to give
>     > people more
>     >
>     > time to react because of my late reminder about feature freeze. The
>     > hard code
>     >
>     > freeze date will remain unchanged, i.e. Fri Oct 6, 2023. So
>     currently
>     > we have 2
>     >
>     > weeks before code freeze and another 4 weeks before hard code
>     freeze. If
>     >
>     > everything goes well, we can cut 4.18 rc1 at Fri Sep 29, 2023.
>     >
>     > Also, below is the critical items on my list for 4.18 release:
>     >
>     > 1. [PATCH 0/7] tools: More Python 3 fixes (part 1 of N)
>     >
>     > https://gitlab.com/xen-project/xen/-/issues/114
>     >
>     > 2. tools: Switch to non-truncating XENVER_* ops
>     >
>     >
>     https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/20230117135336.11662-1-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com/
>     >
>     > 3. dom0less vs xenstored setup race Was: xen | Failed pipeline for
>     > staging | 6a47ba2f
>     >
>     > https://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=168312468808977
>     <https://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=168312468808977>
>     > <https://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=168312468808977
>     <https://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=168312468808977>>
>     >
>     > https://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=168312687610283
>     <https://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=168312687610283>
>     > <https://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=168312687610283
>     <https://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=168312687610283>>
>     >
>     > 4. The proper eIBRS support for x86
>     >
>     >
>     https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/ec8e75da-743b-50dc-4665-854c446c974e@citrix.com/
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>     > 5. [PATCH 1/2] credit: Limit load balancing to once per millisecond
>     >
>     >
>     https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/20230630113756.672607-1-george.dunlap@cloud.com/
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>     > 6. [PATCH 0/2]  Revoke IOMEM/IO port/IRQ permissions on PCI
>     detach for
>     > HVM guest
>     >
>     >
>     https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/20230809103305.30561-1-julien@xen.org/
>     >
>     > 7. [PATCH v2 0/8] Fixes to debugging facilities
>     >
>     >
>     https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/21cc28b9-91d1-1e6e-23ac-00c44f3ec08e@gmail.com/
>     >
>
>     Did you miss "[PATCH v6 00/13] xen/arm: Split MMU code as the
>     prepration
>     of MPU work" ?
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> AFAIU Henry listed all the critical series for 4.18. Can you explain 
> why do you think this is one?

Sorry, if I misunderstood something.

I assumed we were aiming for R82 MMU rework to be included in 4.18 release.

- Ayan

>
> Cheers,
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>
>
>     It see that patches from [PATCH v6 06/13] xen/arm: Split page table
>     related code to mmu/pt.c ... are yet to be reviewed and committed.
>
>     - Ayan
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>     > Kind regards,
>     >
>     > Henry
>     >
>