Re: Patch "xen: tolerate ACPI NVS memory overlapping with Xen allocated memory" has been added to the 6.11-stable tree

Re: Patch "xen: tolerate ACPI NVS memory overlapping with Xen allocated memory" has been added to the 6.11-stable tree

[Jürgen Groß]

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On 01.10.24 01:15, Sasha Levin wrote:
> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> 
>      xen: tolerate ACPI NVS memory overlapping with Xen allocated memory
> 
> to the 6.11-stable tree which can be found at:
>      http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> 
> The filename of the patch is:
>       xen-tolerate-acpi-nvs-memory-overlapping-with-xen-al.patch
> and it can be found in the queue-6.11 subdirectory.
> 
> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
> 
> 
> 
> commit 8302ac200e3fb2e8b669b96d7c36cdc266e47138
> Author: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
> Date:   Fri Aug 2 20:14:22 2024 +0200
> 
>      xen: tolerate ACPI NVS memory overlapping with Xen allocated memory
>      
>      [ Upstream commit be35d91c8880650404f3bf813573222dfb106935 ]

For this patch to have the desired effect there are the following
prerequisite patches missing:

c4498ae316da ("xen: move checks for e820 conflicts further up")
9221222c717d ("xen: allow mapping ACPI data using a different physical address")

Please add those to the stable trees, too.


Juergen

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Re: Patch "xen: tolerate ACPI NVS memory overlapping with Xen allocated memory" has been added to the 6.11-stable tree

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Oct 01, 2024 at 07:53:23AM +0200, Jürgen Groß wrote:
> On 01.10.24 01:15, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > 
> >      xen: tolerate ACPI NVS memory overlapping with Xen allocated memory
> > 
> > to the 6.11-stable tree which can be found at:
> >      http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> > 
> > The filename of the patch is:
> >       xen-tolerate-acpi-nvs-memory-overlapping-with-xen-al.patch
> > and it can be found in the queue-6.11 subdirectory.
> > 
> > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> > please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > commit 8302ac200e3fb2e8b669b96d7c36cdc266e47138
> > Author: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
> > Date:   Fri Aug 2 20:14:22 2024 +0200
> > 
> >      xen: tolerate ACPI NVS memory overlapping with Xen allocated memory
> >      [ Upstream commit be35d91c8880650404f3bf813573222dfb106935 ]
> 
> For this patch to have the desired effect there are the following
> prerequisite patches missing:
> 
> c4498ae316da ("xen: move checks for e820 conflicts further up")
> 9221222c717d ("xen: allow mapping ACPI data using a different physical address")
> 
> Please add those to the stable trees, too.

As those didn't apply to anything older than 6.1.y I've dropped this one
from the older kernel branches as well.

thanks,

greg k-h