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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [GIT PULL] 0.10.7 stable release
From: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com>
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To: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>, aliguori@us.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Chris Webb<chris@arachsys.com> wrote:
> Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com> writes:
>
>> These are the patches I am proposing for 0.10.7 stable release. If you d=
isagree
>> with any of them, or think a patch should go in that is not in this list=
, let me know
>
> I have seen a large number of failures of production qemu-kvm virtual
> machines with segfaults in the VNC code. (Thread rooted at
> <20090812150159.GW5348@arachsys.com>.)
>
> Avi pointed out Gerd's patch 198a00:
>
> =C2=A0http://git.qemu.org/qemu.git/commit/?id=3D198a0039c5fca224a77e9761e=
2350dd9cc102ad0
>
> which I backported <20090819224739.GB17276@arachsys.com>:
>
> =C2=A0http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-08/msg00949.html
>
> This has massively reduced the crash rate of qemu-kvm processes across ou=
r
> clusters, although I still do a see a (much rarer) vnc-related segfault i=
n
> vnc_framebuffer_update().

Good. Sorry, I missed that one.

Since you effectively wrote a backport, can you re-send it with a SoB
line, and some information
on the changelog telling us where and why the differences from master occur=
s?

I'll then happily and promply pick it up.

--=20
Glauber  Costa.
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