From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Cooper Subject: Re: preparing for 4.5.1 Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 10:05:09 +0100 Message-ID: <552B86C5.80004@citrix.com> References: <55144ADE020000780006E157@mail.emea.novell.com> <55194C88.2040303@citrix.com> <552B9C38020000780007158D@mail.emea.novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <552B9C38020000780007158D@mail.emea.novell.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: xen-devel@lists.xen.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 13/04/15 09:36, Jan Beulich wrote: >>>> On 30.03.15 at 15:15, wrote: >> El 26/03/15 a les 18.07, Jan Beulich ha escrit: >>> All, >>> >>> having been released mid January, it is time to get ready for 4.5.1-rc1. >>> Please reply with backport requests which you consider necessary but >>> still missing. Please also be patient with them being pulled in - I'll be >>> gone the coming two weeks, and I'd hope to get an RC1 put together >>> soon thereafter. >> I would like to request the backport of the shared page tables fix >> between EPT and IOMMU for PVH: >> >> 797842 iommu: fix usage of shared EPT/IOMMU page tables on PVH > Apart from you having failed to also request the fixup on top (as > pointed out by Julien) you also didn't give a reason for the request. > Aiui this is a PVH Dom0 fix only, and PVH Dom0 doesn't even come > near to be supported in 4.5. I would concur. PVH is experimental and in need of a large quantity of work before it could plausibly be supported (and therefore qualify for backports). Anyone working on PVH while it is experimental should be using unstable. ~Andrew