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 _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
