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[Xen-devel] Proposed patches for Linux 3.1 kernel.

To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Proposed patches for Linux 3.1 kernel.
From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:17:15 -0400
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The 3.0 is suppose to be released today, or perhaps tomorrow.

For 3.1 kernel we have this long list of features and bug-fixes that we are 
going
to ask Linus to pick up:

 - VGA text support. Since Xen is the first payload on the bootloader it gets 
the
   screen information - now with this patch we can copy it from the hypervisor
   and enjoy 80x25 old-school text output.
 - MODULE_ALIAS on backends so that udev will autoload them.
 - tmem driver to shuffle file-system and swap pages between guests as 
appropiate.
   Runtime it is disabled unless 'tmem' parameter is supplied.
 - self balloon driver to decrease memory in the guest and make the swap pages
   be shuffled by tmem to be compressed/shared/etc. Runtime wise it is disabled
   by default (use 'selfballooning' to enable it and make sure you have a swap 
disk).
 - pciback backend. It complements the xen pci front driver which together
   allow guests to have host's PCI devices.
 - cleaning up the Xen PCI glue code.
 - Fix section mismatch in Xen PCI HVM driver (xen-pci-platform).
 - Fixes to the generic pagetable to compute precisely how many pages we need.
 - blkback can now provide completion latency that follows the hardware's 
completion
   latency.
 - PVonHVM blkfront naming fixes.
 - Xen MMU debugfs has gotten a facelift - now it uses the tracing API.

Please tell me or Jeremy if we are missing anything or need to chase something 
down.

Here is the full credit list:

Anupam Chanda (1):
      x86, hyper: Change hypervisor detection order

Bastian Blank (4):
      xen: Populate xenbus device attributes
      xen: Add module alias to autoload backend drivers
      xen/blkback: Add module alias for autoloading
      xen/netback: Add module alias for autoloading

Dan Magenheimer (2):
      xen: prepare tmem shim to handle frontswap
      xen: tmem: self-ballooning and frontswap-selfshrinking

Daniel Stodden (1):
      xen/blkback: Don't let in-flight requests defer pending ones.

Ian Campbell (1):
      xen: rename pciback module to xen-pciback.

Jeremy Fitzhardinge (18):
      xen: allow enable use of VGA console on dom0
      trace/xen: add skeleton for Xen trace events
      xen/multicalls: remove debugfs stats
      xen/trace: set up tracepoint skeleton
      xen/trace: add multicall tracing
      xen/trace: add mmu tracepoints
      xen/trace: add ptpage alloc/release tracepoints
      xen/trace: add xen_pgd_(un)pin tracepoints
      xen/trace: add segment desc tracing
      xen/trace: add tlb flush tracepoints
      xen/mmu: use extend_args for more mmuext updates
      xen/mmu: tune pgtable alloc/release
      xen/multicalls: disable MC_DEBUG
      xen/multicalls: add unlikely around slowpath in __xen_mc_entry()
      xen/multicall: special-case singleton hypercalls
      xen/multicall: move *idx fields to start of mc_buffer
      xen/trace: convert mmu events to use DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS()/DEFINE_EVENT()
      xen/trace: use class for multicall trace

Joe Perches (1):
      xen: Add __attribute__((format(printf... where appropriate

Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk (21):
      xen/pci: Shuffle code around.
      xen/pci: Update comments and fix empty spaces.
      xen/pci: Provide #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI to easy code squashing.
      xen/pci: In xen_register_pirq bind the GSI to the IRQ after the hypercall.
      xen/pci: Use the xen_register_pirq for HVM and initial domain users
      xen/pci: Squash pci_xen_initial_domain and xen_setup_pirqs together.
      xen/pci: Move the allocation of IRQs when there are no IOAPIC's to the end
      xen/pci: Retire unnecessary #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI
      xen/pci: Remove 'xen_allocate_pirq_gsi'.
      xen/pci: Use 'acpi_gsi_to_irq' value unconditionally.
      xen/pciback: xen pci backend driver.
      xen/pciback: Cleanup the driver based on checkpatch warnings and errors.
      xen/pciback: Register the owner (domain) of the PCI device.
      xen/pciback: Disable MSI/MSI-X when reseting a device
      xen/pciback: Allocate IRQ handler for device that is shared with guest.
      xen/pciback: Fine-grain the spinlocks and fix BUG: scheduling while 
atomic cases.
      xen/pciback: Don't setup an fake IRQ handler for SR-IOV devices.
      xen/pciback: Print out the MSI/MSI-X (PIRQ) values
      xen/pciback: Drop two backends, squash and cleanup some code.
      xen/pciback: Remove the DEBUG option.
      xen/pciback: Have 'passthrough' option instead of XEN_PCIDEV_BACKEND_PASS 
and XEN_PCIDEV_BACKEND_VPCI

Raghavendra D Prabhu (1):
      xen:pvhvm: Modpost section mismatch fix

Stefan Bader (2):
      xen-blkfront: Drop name and minor adjustments for emulated scsi devices
      xen-blkfront: Fix one off warning about name clash

Stefano Stabellini (4):
      x86, mm: Calculate precisely the memory needed by init_memory_mapping
      Revert "x86,xen: introduce x86_init.mapping.pagetable_reserve"
      x86, init : Move memblock_x86_reserve_range PGTABLE to 
find_early_table_space
      x86-64, mm: Do not assume head_64.S used 4KB pages when !use_pse

Zhao, Yu (1):
      xen/pciback: guest SR-IOV support for PV guest


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