[CentOS-virt] Xen updates / TODO
Pasi Kärkkäinen
pasik at iki.fi
Thu Feb 20 11:17:55 UTC 2014
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:51:57AM +0000, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 20/02/14 09:04, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> >
> > Oh, another question.. are there any important not-yet-upstream
> > patches in the XS dom0 kernel queue for Linux 3.10?
>
> You can view the current XenServer patch queue at:
>
> https://github.com/xenserver/linux-3.x.pg
>
> There are only two things I would recommend taking but they're not ready
> yet.
>
> 1. Fix for high MMIO regions.
>
> 0001-x86-xen-rename-early_p2m_alloc-and-early_p2m_alloc_m.patch
> ...
> 0008-x86-remove-the-Xen-specific-_PAGE_IOMAP-PTE-flag.patch
>
> These require more testing.
>
OK.
> 2. Preemptible privcmd hypercalls.
>
> The current set of patches is broken and the fixed version is not ready yet.
>
OK.
So we need to wait a bit with those..
> I also note two fixes for 32-bit guests were not tagged for stable. I
> have now asked for these to be added to the stable trees. These are:
>
> 0160676bba69523e8b0ac83f306cce7d342ed7c8 (xen/p2m: check MFN is in range
> before using the m2p table)
>
> 7cde9b27e7b3a2e09d647bb4f6d94e842698d2d5 (xen: Fix possible user space
> selector corruption)
>
Thanks a lot!
-- Pasi
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