Re: [stable] [PATCH 00/12] xen/paravirt_ops patches for 2.6.24

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

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@kernel.org

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
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