[Pkg-xen-devel] Fwd: Backport requests for 4.0

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 02:27:48PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Maybe it should be worth backporting some of what's bellow?
> 

Yeah, and the various IRQ related bugfixes, and the Intel CPU errate bugfix (hpet broadcast).

-- Pasi

> Thomas
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	[Xen-devel] Backport requests for 4.0
> Date: 	Fri, 17 Dec 2010 17:41:56 +0000
> From: 	Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson at eu.citrix.com>
> To: 	Keir Fraser <keir at xen.org>
> CC: 	xen-devel at lists.xensource.com
> 
> 
> 
> Having searched through the changelogs, these three changesets apply
> cleanly to 4.0-testing and should IMO be backported unchanged:
> 
>   changeset:   22425:d6c2695f05eb
>   user:        Ian Campbell <ian.campbell at citrix.com>
>   date:        Tue Nov 23 19:29:13 2010 +0000
>   files:       tools/Makefile
>   description:
>   tools: fetch remote changesets when force refetching/resetting qemu
> 
>   changeset:   22381:2bedffabbcab
>   user:        Ian Campbell <ian.campbell at citrix.com>
>   date:        Tue Nov 09 18:15:25 2010 +0000
>   files:       Makefile tools/Makefile
>   description:
>   tools: provide explicit target for refetching/resetting qemu
> 
>   changeset:   22153:95c90bd63aed
>   user:        Matthias Klose <doko at debian.org>
>   date:        Tue Sep 14 17:46:21 2010 +0100
>   files:       tools/python/xen/util/bugtool.py tools/python/xen/xend/XendBase.py tools/python/xen/xm/main.py tools/python/xen/xm/xenapi_create.py
>   description:
>   tools/python: Replace python string exceptions with ValueError exceptions
> 
> The bug fixed by this changeset seems to exist in 4.0-testing and it
> would be helpful to backport it there because it fixes a stochastic
> test failure.  But it doesn't apply cleanly, so I or Stefano will have
> to prepare a backported version:
> 
>   changeset:   22552:1800f15da48a
>   user:        Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson at eu.citrix.com>
>   date:        Thu Dec 16 17:39:24 2010 +0000
>   files:       tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c
>   description:
>   tools/xl: fix race which can leave an xl monitor processing hanging
> 
> There was an awful lot of work done to libxl.  I think the version of
> libxl in 4.0 is best regarded as a technology preview and I don't
> think we should try to backport even important bugfixes.  It's either
> that, or try somehow to import 4.1's libxl wholesale (which would be
> awkward, given libxc changes).
> 
> Ian.
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