From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Kiszka Subject: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-kmod-2.6.32.7 Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:56:13 +0100 Message-ID: <4B63213D.7010906@siemens.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm Return-path: Received: from goliath.siemens.de ([192.35.17.28]:19214 "EHLO goliath.siemens.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754102Ab0A2R4P (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:56:15 -0500 Received: from mail2.siemens.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by goliath.siemens.de (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id o0THuD9n004119 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:56:13 +0100 Received: from [139.25.109.167] (mchn012c.mchp.siemens.de [139.25.109.167] (may be forged)) by mail2.siemens.de (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id o0THuD5r010671 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:56:13 +0100 Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Yet another stable update for kvm-kmod-2.6.32. This one comes with a bunch of smaller KVM fixes. They are mostly targeting rare corner cases or making the kernel interface more robust against mad user space. But one also fixing a small memory leak per created VCPU. On the kvm-kmod framework side, we have some some improvements for packagers (as I had to go through this pain myself) and we now deliver kvm_para.h, so far only interesting for bleeding-edge qemu (qemu-kvm still comes with its own copies). Longer changelog below. Find the new version at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/kvm/files/kvm-kmod/2.6.32.7/kvm-kmod-2.6.32.7.tar.bz2/download KVM changes since kvm-kmod-2.6.32.4: - only clear irq_source_id if irqchip is present - fix lock imbalance in kvm_*_irq_source_id() - x86: Fix leak of free lapic date in kvm_arch_vcpu_init() - x86: Fix probable memory leak of vcpu->arch.mce_banks - x86: Fix host_mapping_level() - MMU: bail out pagewalk on kvm_read_guest error - Fix race between APIC TMR and IRR - only allow one gsi per fd kvm-kmod changes: - provide kvm_para.h headers - Report missing configure run more elegantly - Do not rename old kernel modules during installation, rely on depmod preferring update directory - Use standard modules_install - small cleanups Jan