From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
x86@kernel.org, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com>,
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@amazon.com>,
KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Subject: Re: [stable-4.9: PATCH] xen: revert commit 72a9b186292
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 09:58:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d17d56ce-4ea2-abef-a20d-f7e31a9a06bf@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170414091720.GB6372@kroah.com>
On 04/14/2017 05:17 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 03:06:53PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> Revert commit 72a9b186292 ("xen: Remove event channel notification
>> through Xen PCI platform device") as the original analysis was wrong
>> that all the removed code isn't in use any more.
>>
>> It is still necessary for old Xen versions (< 4.0) and for being able
>> to run the Linux kernel as dom0 in a nested Xen environment.
> What is the commit id of this revert in Linus's tree?
It hasn't been reverted in Linus tree yet --- there were some changes in
Xen code in 4.11 that make the revert not a mechanical operation and we
are somewhat hesitant to have a patch this late in the release cycle.
-boris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-14 13:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-13 13:06 [stable-4.9: PATCH] xen: revert commit 72a9b186292 Juergen Gross
2017-04-14 9:17 ` Greg KH
2017-04-14 13:58 ` Boris Ostrovsky [this message]
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2017-05-05 7:59 Juergen Gross
2017-05-05 17:55 ` Greg KH
2017-05-08 5:11 Juergen Gross
2017-05-11 12:20 ` Greg KH
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