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[Xen-devel] Re: [stable] [PATCH 00/12] xen/paravirt_ops patches for 2.6.

To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [stable] [PATCH 00/12] xen/paravirt_ops patches for 2.6.24
From: Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:54:06 -0700
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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@xxxxxxxxxx

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

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