Re: preparations for 4.17.4

2024-05-16 Thread Jan Beulich
On 27.03.2024 13:23, Jan Beulich wrote: > the release is due in two to three weeks. Please point out backports you find > missing from the respective staging branch, but which you consider relevant. > > Note that this is going to be the last Xen Project coordinated ordinary stable > release from

Re: preparations for 4.17.4

2024-04-03 Thread Jan Beulich
On 03.04.2024 16:08, Andrew Cooper wrote: > On 02/04/2024 3:26 pm, Jan Beulich wrote: >> On 27.03.2024 13:33, Andrew Cooper wrote: >>> 5) Ucode scan stability  (For 4.18 only) >>> >>> Xen 4.18 had "x86/ucode: Refresh raw CPU policy after microcode load" in >>> it's .0 release, so should also gain:

Re: preparations for 4.17.4

2024-04-03 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 02/04/2024 3:26 pm, Jan Beulich wrote: > On 27.03.2024 13:33, Andrew Cooper wrote: >> 1) livepatching of .rodata: >> >> 989556c6f8ca - xen/virtual-region: Rename the start/end fields >> ef969144a425 - xen/virtual-region: Include rodata pointers >> b083b1c393dc - x86/livepatch: Relax permissions

Re: preparations for 4.17.4

2024-04-02 Thread Jan Beulich
On 27.03.2024 13:33, Andrew Cooper wrote: > 1) livepatching of .rodata: > > 989556c6f8ca - xen/virtual-region: Rename the start/end fields > ef969144a425 - xen/virtual-region: Include rodata pointers > b083b1c393dc - x86/livepatch: Relax permissions on rodata too > > And technically "x86/mm: fix

Re: preparations for 4.17.4

2024-03-27 Thread Christian Lindig
> On 27 Mar 2024, at 14:42, Andrew Cooper wrote: > > On 27/03/2024 2:06 pm, Jan Beulich wrote: >> On 27.03.2024 15:01, Andrew Cooper wrote: >>> It occurs to me that these want considering: >>> >>> b6cf604207fd - tools/oxenstored: Use Map instead of Hashtbl for quotas >>> 098d868e52ac -

Re: preparations for 4.17.4

2024-03-27 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 27/03/2024 2:06 pm, Jan Beulich wrote: > On 27.03.2024 15:01, Andrew Cooper wrote: >> It occurs to me that these want considering: >> >> b6cf604207fd - tools/oxenstored: Use Map instead of Hashtbl for quotas >> 098d868e52ac - tools/oxenstored: Make Quota.t pure >> >> while 4.17 is still in

Re: preparations for 4.17.4

2024-03-27 Thread Jan Beulich
On 27.03.2024 15:01, Andrew Cooper wrote: > It occurs to me that these want considering: > > b6cf604207fd - tools/oxenstored: Use Map instead of Hashtbl for quotas > 098d868e52ac - tools/oxenstored: Make Quota.t pure > > while 4.17 is still in general support.  These came from a performance >

Re: preparations for 4.17.4

2024-03-27 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 27/03/2024 12:33 pm, Andrew Cooper wrote: > On 27/03/2024 12:23 pm, Jan Beulich wrote: >> All, >> >> the release is due in two to three weeks. Please point out backports you find >> missing from the respective staging branch, but which you consider relevant. >> >> Note that this is going to be

Re: preparations for 4.17.4

2024-03-27 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 27/03/2024 12:23 pm, Jan Beulich wrote: > All, > > the release is due in two to three weeks. Please point out backports you find > missing from the respective staging branch, but which you consider relevant. > > Note that this is going to be the last Xen Project coordinated ordinary stable >

preparations for 4.17.4

2024-03-27 Thread Jan Beulich
All, the release is due in two to three weeks. Please point out backports you find missing from the respective staging branch, but which you consider relevant. Note that this is going to be the last Xen Project coordinated ordinary stable release from this branch; the branch will move into