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From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: preparations for 4.4.1, 4.3.3, and 4.2.5
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 16:14:23 -0400
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On 05/19/2014 10:12 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> All,
>
> with the aim of releasing 4.4.1 no later than 3 months after the original
> 4.4.0 release, and - in order to consolidate effort as well as to not
> exceed the 3 month step by too much - 4.3.3 and 4.2.5, please point
> out to the relevant maintainers any backport requests you may observe
> still missing but required on the respective branches.
>
> Please note that there's no need to nominate
>
> 99c03bc6 "Nested VMX: load current_vmcs only when it exists"
> a0708452 "x86/MCE: bypass uninitialized vcpu in vMCE injection"
>
> as they're already on my list of backports to be done before the
> RC1s for the branches they reasonably apply to.
>
> Please note further that 4.2.5 is expected to be the last xen.org
> managed release from the 4.2 branch.
>
> Thanks, Jan


Tools:
2c4f066 libxl: Set guest parameters from config file during a restore

Hypervisor:
88e64cb x86/HVM: use fixed TSC value when saving or restoring domain
b95fd03 x86/svm: enable TSC scaling
82713ec x86: use native RDTSC(P) execution when guest and host 
frequencies are the same


-boris