On 13/11/2024 10:14 am, Luca Fancellu wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>> On 12 Nov 2024, at 16:11, Julien Grall <jul...@xen.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 12/11/2024 16:00, Stewart Hildebrand wrote:
>>> On 11/12/24 08:00, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> All,
>>>>
>>>> the release is due by the end of the month. Please point out
>>>> backports you find
>>>> missing from the respective staging branch, but which you consider
>>>> relevant.
>>>>
>>>> Advance notice: 4.18.4 ought to follow about two weeks later.
>>>>
>>>> Jan
>>>>
>>> Looking for Julien's input on this one:
>>> 35c64c3dce01 ("xen/arm64: entry: Actually skip do_trap_*() when an
>>> SError is triggered")
>>> As mentioned in the post-commit notes [0] it's a candidate for backport.
>>
>> In the past, Stefano handled backports for Arm. I am not sure if this
>> is still case. Stefano?
>>
>>> [0]
>>> https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/20240806124815.53492-1-jul...@xen.org/
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> --
>> Julien Grall
>>
>>
>
> Regarding back porting to the 4.19, there is a regression for Arm
> discussed in the ML and on Matrix, do we want to address it now?
>
> [v5,1/3] xen/device-tree: Let DT reserve map entries overlap
> reserved-memory - Patchwork
> <https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/xen-devel/patch/302647e409d91ea7ed39e568dadeedc572976c3b.1727388925.git.sanasta...@raptorengineering.com/>
> patchwork.kernel.org
> <https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/xen-devel/patch/302647e409d91ea7ed39e568dadeedc572976c3b.1727388925.git.sanasta...@raptorengineering.com/>
>
> <https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/xen-devel/patch/302647e409d91ea7ed39e568dadeedc572976c3b.1727388925.git.sanasta...@raptorengineering.com/>
>
> <https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/xen-devel/patch/302647e409d91ea7ed39e568dadeedc572976c3b.1727388925.git.sanasta...@raptorengineering.com/>
>
>
> xen/device-tree: Allow exact match for overlapping regions - Patchwork
> <https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/xen-devel/patch/20241106134132.2185492-1-luca.fance...@arm.com/>
> patchwork.kernel.org
> <https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/xen-devel/patch/20241106134132.2185492-1-luca.fance...@arm.com/>
>
> <https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/xen-devel/patch/20241106134132.2185492-1-luca.fance...@arm.com/>
>
> <https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/xen-devel/patch/20241106134132.2185492-1-luca.fance...@arm.com/>
>
That regression does want addressing ASAP, and wants to be included
within 4.19.1.
But first, the ARM maintainers need to agree on what the fix should look
like.
~Andrew
