[ANNOUNCE] kvm-80 release

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

We're continuing the merge with kvm support in upstream qemu, and this 
is rocking the boat; please test carefully.

Important note: unlike most kvm releases, userspace in this release is 
required the modules from kvm-80 (or above), and will not work with 
older versions or with the modules provided by the upstream kernel. 
This will be corrected in kvm-81.

Changes from kvm-79:
- merge qemu-svn
   - automatic port allocation for vnc and similar
   - improved cdrom media change handling
   - improved debugging support
   - more scsi improvements
   - e1000 vlan offload
- up to 256 vcpus for ia64 (Jes Sorensen)
- only request io port permission if device assignment is enabled (Jes 
Sorensen)
- fix in-kernel ioapic reset (Jan Kiszka)
   - fixes guest reboot failures
- fix balloon for systems with page size different from 4K (Hollis 
Blanchard)
- fix bios memory reporting with >32G guests (Bill Rieske)
- drop inclusion of compiler.h in external modules (Xiantao Zhang)
- use vcpu pointers instead of vcpu numbers (Jes Sorensen)
- goodbye bool (Jes Sorensen)
- stop using separate structure for cpu state; use qemu's instead
   (Jes Sorensen)
- apic testsuite
- fix -no-kvm apic with smp (Jan Kiszka)
- clean up userspace nmi injection (Jan Kiszka)
- adjust external module for 2.6.28 hosts (Mark McLoughlin)
- much improved large mtu/gso support for virtio-net (Mark McLoughlin)
- simplify x86 emulator stack pop operations
- clean up device assignment code (Mark McLoughlin)
- fix extboot returning error incorrectly (Glauber Costa)
- constrain device assignment mmio to page alignment (Han Weidong)
- ppc speedups (Hollis Blanchard)
- fix s390 problem state handling (Christian Borntraeger)
- fix interrupt loss when injecting an nmi
   - fixes Linux guests with nmi watchdog hanging
- fix ia64 build (Xiantao Zhang)
- fix emergency reboot and kdump on host while running VMs
   (Eduardo Habkost)
- fix syncing of self-referencing ptes (Marcelo Tosatti)
- add printk() for ia64 vmm (Xiantao Zhang)
- add crashed vm handler for ia64 (Xiantao Zhang)
- use correct calling convention into ia64 PAL code (Xiantao Zhang)
- request interrupt window after injecting an interrupt if another is 
pending
- plug ppc memory leak when destroying a vm
- sign kvmclock as a paravirt operation (Glauber Costa)
- MSI support for device assigment (Sheng Yang)
- fix shadow pagetables leak (Marcelo Tosatti)
   - fixes an oops
- optimize setting new pte while syncing a page (Marcelo Tosatti)
- reduce code duplication in x86 emulator
- fix s390 refcounting; allow module unload (Christian Borntraeger)
- fix s390 memory leak (Christian Borntraeger)
- prevent tracing calls into unloaded module (Wu Fengguang)
- fix sparse warnings (Hannes Eder)
- clean up irq ack notifiers (Mark McLoughlin)
- powerpc large page support (Hollis Blanchard)
- faster powerpc shadow tlb handling (Hollis Blanchard)
- reduce powerpc guest tlb miss rate on context switches (Hollis Blanchard)
- powerpc exit timing stats (Hollis Blanchard)
- fix -no-kvm-irqchip not working with smp (Jan Kiszka)
- fix rendering regressions introduced by upstream qemu rendering support

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