Xen 4.19 release status tracking list [ May ]

[Oleksii <oleksii.kurochko@gmail.com>]

Hello everyone,

I would like to share with you a list for status tracking based on Xen
ML and community members comments:

*** Arm ***:
  * Arm cache coloring [
https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/20240502165533.319988-1-carlo.nonato@minervasys.tech/
]:
    - new patch series version [v8] was sent

  * PCI devices passthrough on Arm, part 3 [
https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/20240202213321.1920347-1-stewart.hildebrand@amd.com/
]
 
  * DOMCTL-based guest magic region allocation for 11
domUs [
https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/20240409045357.236802-1-xin.wang2@amd.com/
]
     - new patch series verstion [v4] was sent
 
  * [XEN v6 0/3] xen/arm: Add emulation of Debug Data Transfer
Registers [
https://patchew.org/Xen/20240307123943.1991755-1-ayan.kumar.halder@amd.com/
]

*** PPC ***:
  * [PATCH v4 0/6] Early Boot Allocation on Power [
https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/cover.1712893887.git.sanastasio@raptorengineering.com/
]:
    new patch series version [v4] was sent

*** RISC-V ***:
  * [PATCH v8 00/17] Enable build of full Xen for RISC-V
https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/cover.1713347222.git.oleksii.kurochko@gmail.com/
]:
    - several patches were merged
    - new patch series version [v8] were sent


*** x86 ***:
  * [PATCH 0/4] iommu/x86: fixes/improvements for unity range checks [
https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/20240201170159.66330-1-roger.pau@citrix.com/
]:
    - almost patch series have been merged already except the patch:
        [PATCH 4/4] iommu/x86: make unity range checking more strict

  * [PATCH 0/8] x86: support AVX10.1 [
https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/298db76f-d0ee-4d47-931f-1baa1a7546cf@suse.com/
]:
    - two patches of patch series are waitng to merged/reviewed:
      [PATCH 1/4] amd-vi: fix IVMD memory type checks
      [PATCH 4/4] iommu/x86: make unity range checking more strict 
  
  * APX support?

  * [PATCH v4 0/8] x86emul: misc additions [
https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/9dd23064-c79e-4a50-9c71-c0e73b189944@suse.com/
]
   
  * [PATCH v2 00/12] VT-d: SATC handling; ATS: tidying[
https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/64b028be-2197-4951-ae5b-32f9eabfa84a@suse.com/
]:
    new version was sent [ v2 ]

  * [XEN PATCH 0/9] x86: parallelize AP bring-up during boot [
https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/cover.1699982111.git.krystian.hebel@3mdeb.com/
]

  * [PATCH v2 00/12] x86: memcpy() / memset() (non-)ERMS flavors plus
fallout [
https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/8f56a8f4-0482-932f-96a9-c791bebb4610@suse.com/
]
    - 6/12 are merged.
 
  * [PATCH v6 0/4] x86/pvh: Support relocating dom0 kernel [
https://patchew.org/Xen/20240327215102.136001-1-jason.andryuk@amd.com/
]
 
  * x86/spec-ctrl: IBPB improvements [
https://patchew.org/Xen/06591b64-2f05-a4cc-a2f3-a74c3c4a76d6@suse.com/
]


*** common ***:
  * annotate entry points with type and size" series:
    The bulk of this has gone in, but there'll want to be follow-ups.

  * [PATCH v2 (resend) 00/27] Remove the directmap [
https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/20240116192611.41112-1-eliasely@amazon.com/
]
    - 7/27 were merged.
 
  * [PATCH] move __read_mostly to xen/cache.h [
https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/f25eb5c9-7c14-6e23-8535-2c66772b333e@suse.com/
]

  * [XEN PATCH v2 1/3] xen: introduce STATIC_ASSERT_UNREACHABLE() [
https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/42fc6ae8d3eb802429d29c774502ff232340dc84.1706259490.git.federico.serafini@bugseng.com/
]

  * MISRA rules updates:
   - [PATCH v2] docs/misra/rules.rst update [
https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2402131431070.1925432@ubuntu-linux-20-04-desktop/T/#maded3df1bebe68d0fe53c73e89f996ec395a39e5
]: 2/3 were merged.

   - [XEN PATCH v3 0/7] address violations of MISRA C Rule 20.7[
https://patchew.org/Xen/cover.1711700095.git.nicola.vetrini@bugseng.com/
]: new patch series version (v3) were sent.

   - [XEN PATCH v3 00/16] xen: address violation of MISRA C:2012
Directive 4.10 [
https://patchew.org/Xen/cover.1710145041.git.simone.ballarin@bugseng.com/
]: 2/16 were merged.

  * [PATCH v6 00/8] xen/spinlock: make recursive spinlocks a dedicated
type [ https://patchew.org/Xen/20240327152229.25847-1-jgross@suse.com/
]:
    - only one patch required to be merged:
     
https://patchew.org/Xen/20240327152229.25847-1-jgross@suse.com/20240327152229.25847-9-jgross@suse.com/
   
  * [PATCH 0/7] GRUB: Supporting Secure Boot of xen.gz [
https://patchew.org/Xen/20240313150748.791236-1-ross.lagerwall@citrix.com/
]:
   
  * [PATCH v6 0/7] MSI-X support with qemu in stubdomain, and other
related changes:
    - new patch version was sent
 
  * [PATCH 0/7] xen/bitops: Reduce the mess, starting with ffs() [
https://patchew.org/Xen/20240313172716.2325427-1-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com/
]:
 
  * [PATCH 0/7] xen/trace: Treewide API cleanup [
https://patchew.org/Xen/20240318163552.3808695-1-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com/
]:
    patches were merged to staging:
     - [PATCH 3/7] xen/rt: Clean up trace handling
     - [PATCH 4/7] xen/sched: Clean up trace handling
 
  * [PATCH v3 0/4] xenwatchdogd bugfixes and enhancements [
https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/20240411182023.56309-1-leigh@solinno.co.uk/
]:
    new patch series were sent.

  * [RFC XEN PATCH v7 0/5] Support device passthrough when dom0 is PVH
on Xen [
https://patchew.org/Xen/20240419035340.608833-1-Jiqian.Chen@amd.com/ ]:
    - new patch series were sent [v7].


*** Completed ***:
  *** Arm ***:
     * xen/arm64: Rework the MMU-off code (idmap) so it is self-
contained

  *** x86 ***:
     * tools: enable xenstore-stubdom to use 9pfs

  *** common ***:
     * NUMA: no need for asm/numa.h when !NUMA
     * xen: move BUG_ON(), WARN_ON(), ASSERT(), ASSERT_UNREACHABLE() to
xen/bug.h
     * xen/lib: introduce generic find next bit operations
     * Introduce generic headers
     * xen/livepatch: fixes for the pre-apply / post-revert hooks
     * limit passing around of cpu_user_regs

Please reply with items you would like to see in 4.19 so that people
know what is happening and prioritize accordingly.
You're welcome to provide a description and use cases of the feature
you're working on.

Have a nice week!

Best regards,
 Oleksii