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Re: SOLVED: Re: [Xen-devel] Issue with pv_ops Kernel 2.6.31.6 and Xen [y

To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: SOLVED: Re: [Xen-devel] Issue with pv_ops Kernel 2.6.31.6 and Xen [yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx: [PATCH 01/35] x86: fix sci on ioapic 1]
From: Michael D Labriola <mlabriol@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:07:03 -0500
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xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 02/17/2010 01:52:40 PM:

> On 02/17/2010 12:33 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 01:51:05PM -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > 
> >>>
> >>> 
> >>>> Question: Is it known when this piece of code will be introduced in 
the
> >>>> "pv_ops Kernel tree"?
> >>>>
> >>>> 
> >>> Hmm.. Jeremy's plans are to re-base the pvops changes that went in
> >>> 2.6.31.6 onto 2.6.32. The reason being that 2.6.32 has been choosen 
by
> >>> many distributions as their next vehicle for release. The patches 
being
> >>> mostly, if possible, related only to Xen.
> >>>
> >>> The patch I forwarded to you is targetted for 2.6.33 so it wouldnot 
appear
> >>> normally in 2.6.32 tree unles Greg KH choose to back-port it in. 
Greg is
> >>> the maintainer of the 2.6.32 stable tree.
> >>>
> >>> I would recommend you e-mail Greg KH with this e-mail, explain your
> >>> situation  and ask him if he wouldn't mind merging the patch in.
> >>> Thought you might need to do some of the work yourself
> >>> (as in, merge the patch in an earlier kernel) - it seems you already
> >>> have done this so hopefully that shouldn't be a problem.
> >>>
> >>> Try it that way, as this way also the distributions will pick up the 
fix
> >>> and you would be able to load any new distro on your box without 
having
> >>> to manually recompile the kernel and such.
> >>>
> >>> 
> >> Is that one change enough to fix the reported problem?  Can we just
> >> cherry-pick it over?  Or does it need a lot of supporting patches?
> >>
> >> 
> >>> Then when Jeremy revs up the xen/next tree to next stable rev (I 
think
> >>> he will do this, not sure?), it will automatically be picked up 
> (if Greg picks it up in his tree).
> >>>
> >>> 
> >> Yes.  At the moment xen/next is based on plain 2.6.32 because that is
> >> also an ancestor version of mainline git development.  Once the 
2.6.32
> >> tree basically works (which should be close), then I can merge all 
the
> >> stable branch changes onto it and call it "xen/stable" or something.
> >>
> >> 
> > So that means I should try xen/next now? :)
> > 
> 
> Give it a go.  It boots OK for me, and I can start xend.  But I get 
> domains hanging in pvgrub; I'm not sure blkback is working properly.  Or 

> it could be a tools issue...

Does this require Xen 4.0-rc or can I do some testing using my 3.4.2 
installs?

-Mike

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