Am 12.02.2018 um 17:13 schrieb Dr. David Alan Gilbert: > * Peter Lieven (p...@kamp.de) wrote: >> Am 06.02.2018 um 20:14 schrieb Michael Roth: >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> The following new patches are queued for QEMU stable v2.11.1: >>> >>> https://github.com/mdroth/qemu/commits/stable-2.11-staging >>> >>> The release is planned for 2017-02-14: >>> >>> https://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/2.11 >>> >>> Please respond here or CC qemu-sta...@nongnu.org on any patches you >>> think should be included in the release. >>> >>> Of particular importance would be any feedback on the various QEMU >>> patches relating to Spectre/Meltdown mitigation. The current tree has >>> what I understand to be the QEMU components required for x86, s390, >>> and pseries, but feedback/confirmation from the various authors would >>> be greatly appreciated. >> Hi, >> >> I also found the following patches that affect migration: >> >> migration: Don't leak IO channels >> migration: Recover block devices if failure in device state >> migration/savevm.c: set MAX_VM_CMD_PACKAGED_SIZE to 1ul << 32 >> >> In general it seems that migration related patches are often not tagged >> qemu-stable. >> David, can you check if there are patches missing? > I'm always a bit cautious about forwarding stuff to stable; just because > it's landed in our main branch it doesn't mean many people have tested > it, so I'd rather wait unless it was particularly urgent.
Understood. Maybe we need a special mechanism to track such patches. It would be good to have them in a stable release. Maybe tag them as stable-candidate or sth. Then we can recheck their status when a stable release is going to be released. Peter
