Re: preparing for 4.5.1

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>]

On 13/04/15 09:36, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 30.03.15 at 15:15, <roger.pau@citrix.com> wrote:
>> El 26/03/15 a les 18.07, Jan Beulich ha escrit:
>>> All,
>>>
>>> having been released mid January, it is time to get ready for 4.5.1-rc1.
>>> Please reply with backport requests which you consider necessary but
>>> still missing. Please also be patient with them being pulled in - I'll be
>>> gone the coming two weeks, and I'd hope to get an RC1 put together
>>> soon thereafter.
>> I would like to request the backport of the shared page tables fix
>> between EPT and IOMMU for PVH:
>>
>> 797842 iommu: fix usage of shared EPT/IOMMU page tables on PVH
> Apart from you having failed to also request the fixup on top (as
> pointed out by Julien) you also didn't give a reason for the request.
> Aiui this is a PVH Dom0 fix only, and PVH Dom0 doesn't even come
> near to be supported in 4.5.

I would concur.  PVH is experimental and in need of a large quantity of
work before it could plausibly be supported (and therefore qualify for
backports).

Anyone working on PVH while it is experimental should be using unstable.

~Andrew