From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jan Beulich" Subject: Re: Xen 4.2 TODO / Release Plan Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 09:05:06 +0100 Message-ID: <5020E85202000078000931F6@nat28.tlf.novell.com> References: <5020D418020000780009318C@nat28.tlf.novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Campbell , Keir Fraser Cc: Jinsong Liu , xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org >>> On 07.08.12 at 09:50, Keir Fraser wrote: > On 07/08/2012 07:38, "Jan Beulich" wrote: > >> Otoh, restoring from saved state that only includes MCG_CAP (but >> no MCi_CTL2-s) needs to be handled anyway (forcing MCi_CTL2 >> to be zero, which would be trivial as that's the startup state, i.e. >> the only complication here is the variable size save record), so >> pushing this to post-4.2 as well is a reasonable alternative. >> >> Keir, Ian? > > I think we should leave it and handle the variable-sized save record in 4.3. > Using hvm_load_entry_zeroextend() to read in save records, with zero padding > for older shorter records, should be straightforward enough. Okay. So Ian, you could then take the corresponding item off the list. Or do you do that only once patches make it through the regression tester? Jan