[CentOS-virt] Xen updates / TODO

Thu Feb 20 11:17:55 UTC 2014
Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi>

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