Hi Julien, > -----Original Message----- > Subject: Re: Feedback for postponing the 4.17 release to a week later > On 02/11/2022 07:27, Jan Beulich wrote: > > On 02.11.2022 04:00, Henry Wang wrote: >> > >> Also I think we need to submit a patch to make the default > CONFIG_DEBUG > >> to n in Kconfig? Thanks! > > > > Iirc what was done in 4.16 was to switch to non-debug immediately after > > branching, on the new branch only. That was specifically to keep debug > > enabled at all times (and no undue code churn) in staging. Debug > > intermediately off was (earlier on) observed to result in huge Coverity > > reports, because of the perceived differences in the pre-processed / > > produced code. > > That's correct. I will send the patch once we agreed when to branch.
Thanks. > > @Henry, From the previous discussion, it seems like we still have some > blocker. Do we have any update on them? I think current release blocker board [1] is accurate. For the update, IIUC, the MSR_VIRT_SPEC_CTRL fix-up is almost there, we have 2 out of 3 patches already be reviewed (I will provide my release ack now). Only the patch #2 needs some review from x86 maintainers. For the other tickets, I am not really sure if there is any updates. I will raise a topic to discuss in the community call. [1] https://gitlab.com/groups/xen-project/-/boards/4723605?milestone_title=Release%204.17&label_name[]=Priority%3A%3ARELEASE%20BLOCKER Kind regards, Henry > > Cheers, > > -- > Julien Grall
