Re: Recommendations for backport from unstable to 4.1

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>]

On 09/07/12 10:32, Keir Fraser wrote:
> Andrew,
>
> I applied all the below, except 23101:dd386a4b6595 as the dependent patch
> (23013:65d26504e843) is not in OSS 4.1.
>
>  -- Keir

Thanks.  Sorry for that patch - it appears it is actually a minimal mix
of 23101 and 23013 to try and make TXTboot work, rather than a strict
backport of 23101.

Is there an eta for 4.1.3 ?

~Andrew

>
> On 06/07/2012 16:36, "Andrew Cooper" <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Here are some more recommendations for backports from unstable to 4.1,
>> based upon the XenServer patch queue.  Patches with a * do not apply
>> cleanly, and I can provide patches if you wish to backport them.  The
>> rest should apply cleanly (unless I have missed a dependency on other
>> patches we have in our queue, which case I apologize)
>>
>> The following are bugfixes:
>>
>> * 23101:dd386a4b6595 # x86: fix tboot after c/s 23013:65d26504e843 (ACPI
>> cleanup)
>>   23686:7c39a2c0d870 # pygrub: fix solaris kernel issue
>>   23781:0849b0e59e24 # pm: don't truncate processors' ACPI IDs to 8 bits
>>   23813:5535d7ce2673 # xen, vtd: Fix device check for devices behind
>> PCIe-to-PCI bridges
>>   25162:478bec603d3d # xen: Fix schedule()'s grabbing of the schedule lock
>>   25487:baa85434d0ec # x86/mm: fix mod_l1_entry() return value when
>> encountering r/o MMIO page
>>   25489:cc46bd403bc4 # x86/PCI: fix guest_io_read() when pci_cfg_ok()
>> denies access
>>
>>
>> The following are not strictly bugfixes, but I feel they should be
>> considered:
>>
>> * 23726:fd97ca086df6 # x86: update Intel CPUID masking code to latest spec
>>   23731:48f72b389b04 # x86: add change missing in c/s 23726:fd97ca086df6
>>   24261:64088ba60263 # x86/cpuidle: add Westmere-EX support to hw
>> residencies reading logic
>>   24970:33980e36597b # x86/cpuidle: deny access to the I/O port used for
>> EM_SYSIO
>> * 25482:34c725807d21 # SVM: fix performance decrease with asid assignment
>

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