From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762906AbXJOVzY (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:55:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757680AbXJOVzF (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:55:05 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:34443 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757631AbXJOVzC (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:55:02 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:54:06 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Linus Torvalds , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, LKML , Andi Kleen , Chris Wright , virtualization@lists.osdl.org, Andrew Morton , Keir Fraser , Stable Kernel Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH 00/12] xen/paravirt_ops patches for 2.6.24 Message-ID: <20071015215406.GA1588@kroah.com> References: <20071015204840.074767068@goop.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071015204840.074767068@goop.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 01:48:40PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Hi Linus, > > Here's a set of patches to update paravirt_ops and Xen for 2.6.24 > > A quick overview of the patchset: > > paravirt_ops: > Remove the monolithic paravirt_ops structure, and replace it with > smaller structures of related functions. Also, clean up the handling > of lazy mode to make it easier to implement. > > x86/mm/init.c: remove a chunk of dead code > > Xen: > - remove duplicate includes > - yield if the target vcpu of an IPI is not currently running > - add post-batch callbacks for multicalls [*] > - deal with unpinning pagetables when another vcpu still [*] > has a cr3 reference > - deal with split ptelocks by pinning each pte page > separately under lock > - determine the kernel/hypervisor address split dynamically > - use the right arg structure for register_vcpu_info [*] > - add extra debugging output for failed multicalls > > XFS: > - eagerly unmap vmapped areas to avoid confict with Xen > > [*] bugfix needed for 2.6.23. I've also cc:d them to stable@kernel.org Yeah, but you cc:ed all 12 patches to stable@. The majority of which we don't want to take, right? Which specific ones should stable@ care about? thanks, greg k-h