Re: [Xen-devel] PVH backports to 4.9 and 4.8

2018-03-02 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 08:23:50AM -0700, Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> On 02.03.18 at 15:36, wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 07:31:43AM -0700, Jan Beulich wrote: > >> >>> On 02.03.18 at 15:22, wrote: > >> > I'd be in favor of merging the 4.8.3pre-shim-comet and > >> > 4.10.0-shim-comet branches in

Re: [Xen-devel] PVH backports to 4.9 and 4.8

2018-03-02 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 02.03.18 at 15:36, wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 07:31:43AM -0700, Jan Beulich wrote: >> >>> On 02.03.18 at 15:22, wrote: >> > I'd be in favor of merging the 4.8.3pre-shim-comet and >> > 4.10.0-shim-comet branches into staging-4.8 and staging-4.10 >> > respectively (assuming that's suit

Re: [Xen-devel] PVH backports to 4.9 and 4.8

2018-03-02 Thread Wei Liu
On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 07:31:43AM -0700, Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> On 02.03.18 at 15:22, wrote: > > I'd be in favor of merging the 4.8.3pre-shim-comet and > > 4.10.0-shim-comet branches into staging-4.8 and staging-4.10 > > respectively (assuming that's suitable). Are there any other fixes to > >

Re: [Xen-devel] PVH backports to 4.9 and 4.8

2018-03-02 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 02.03.18 at 15:22, wrote: > I'd be in favor of merging the 4.8.3pre-shim-comet and > 4.10.0-shim-comet branches into staging-4.8 and staging-4.10 > respectively (assuming that's suitable). Are there any other fixes to > PVH / PVshim hosting that we'd need to backport as well? That depends

Re: [Xen-devel] PVH backports to 4.9 and 4.8

2018-03-02 Thread George Dunlap
On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 6:38 PM, Hans-Joachim Kliemeck wrote: > > George Dunlap: > > /On 01/23/2018 04:06 AM, Simon Gaiser wrote:/ > /> George Dunlap:/ > />> Part of our solution to XSA-254 SP3 (aka "Meltdown") is to backport/ > />> the PVH mode from 4.10 to 4.9 and 4.8. This will first allow peop

Re: [Xen-devel] PVH backports to 4.9 and 4.8

2018-02-28 Thread Hans-Joachim Kliemeck
> George Dunlap: >> /On 01/23/2018 04:06 AM, Simon Gaiser wrote:/ >> /> George Dunlap:/ >> />> Part of our solution to XSA-254 SP3 (aka "Meltdown") is to backport/ >> />> the PVH mode from 4.10 to 4.9 and 4.8. This will first allow people/ >> />> able to run PVH kernels to switch their PV guests d

Re: [Xen-devel] PVH backports to 4.9 and 4.8

2018-01-23 Thread Simon Gaiser
George Dunlap: > On 01/23/2018 04:06 AM, Simon Gaiser wrote: >> George Dunlap: >>> Part of our solution to XSA-254 SP3 (aka "Meltdown") is to backport >>> the PVH mode from 4.10 to 4.9 and 4.8. This will first allow people >>> able to run PVH kernels to switch their PV guests directly to PVH >>> g

Re: [Xen-devel] PVH backports to 4.9 and 4.8

2018-01-23 Thread George Dunlap
On 01/23/2018 04:06 AM, Simon Gaiser wrote: > George Dunlap: >> Part of our solution to XSA-254 SP3 (aka "Meltdown") is to backport >> the PVH mode from 4.10 to 4.9 and 4.8. This will first allow people >> able to run PVH kernels to switch their PV guests directly to PVH >> guests; and second, eve

Re: [Xen-devel] PVH backports to 4.9 and 4.8

2018-01-22 Thread Simon Gaiser
George Dunlap: > Part of our solution to XSA-254 SP3 (aka "Meltdown") is to backport > the PVH mode from 4.10 to 4.9 and 4.8. This will first allow people > able to run PVH kernels to switch their PV guests directly to PVH > guests; and second, eventually enable the backport of patches which > wil

Re: [Xen-devel] PVH backports to 4.9 and 4.8

2018-01-11 Thread George Dunlap
On 01/11/2018 12:01 PM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 11:03:05AM +, George Dunlap wrote: >> On 01/11/2018 10:58 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: >>> On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 05:08:15PM +, George Dunlap wrote: Part of our solution to XSA-254 SP3 (aka "Meltdown") is to backpo

Re: [Xen-devel] PVH backports to 4.9 and 4.8

2018-01-11 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 11:03:05AM +, George Dunlap wrote: > On 01/11/2018 10:58 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 05:08:15PM +, George Dunlap wrote: > >> Part of our solution to XSA-254 SP3 (aka "Meltdown") is to backport > >> the PVH mode from 4.10 to 4.9 and 4.8. Th

Re: [Xen-devel] PVH backports to 4.9 and 4.8

2018-01-11 Thread George Dunlap
On 01/11/2018 10:58 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 05:08:15PM +, George Dunlap wrote: >> Part of our solution to XSA-254 SP3 (aka "Meltdown") is to backport >> the PVH mode from 4.10 to 4.9 and 4.8. This will first allow people >> able to run PVH kernels to switch their P

Re: [Xen-devel] PVH backports to 4.9 and 4.8

2018-01-11 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 05:08:15PM +, George Dunlap wrote: > Part of our solution to XSA-254 SP3 (aka "Meltdown") is to backport > the PVH mode from 4.10 to 4.9 and 4.8. This will first allow people > able to run PVH kernels to switch their PV guests directly to PVH > guests; and second, event

[Xen-devel] PVH backports to 4.9 and 4.8

2018-01-09 Thread George Dunlap
Part of our solution to XSA-254 SP3 (aka "Meltdown") is to backport the PVH mode from 4.10 to 4.9 and 4.8. This will first allow people able to run PVH kernels to switch their PV guests directly to PVH guests; and second, eventually enable the backport of patches which will enable transparent chan