Re: [Qemu-stable] QEMU 1.2 stable queue requests

[Michael Tokarev]

15.01.2013 00:10, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> The following are commits I'm requesting for inclusion into the 1.2
> stable branch. These would for a release (if any) after 1.2.2. These
> have all been tested in Gentoo and are used there in response to user
> issues. Most of these are in Fedora as well.
>
>
> http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=fc53b7d4b7fe409acae7d8d55a868eb5c696d71c

Author: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>
Date:   Fri Oct 26 16:29:38 2012 +0100

    arm_boot: Change initrd load address to "halfway through RAM"

    To avoid continually having to bump the initrd load address
    to account for larger kernel images, put the initrd halfway
    through RAM. This allows large kernels on new boards with lots
    of RAM to work OK, without breaking existing usecases for
    boards with only 32MB of RAM.

    Note that this change fixes in passing a bug where we were
    passing an overly large max_size to load_image_targphys()
    for the initrd, which meant that we wouldn't correctly refuse
    to load an enormous initrd that didn't actually fit into RAM.


> http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=d8f8a860f2403533fc73f541122c65a34b21e42f

Author: Alon Levy <address@hidden>
Date:   Sun Sep 2 02:04:16 2012 +0300

    dtrace backend: add function to reserved words

> http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=511aefb0c60e3063ead76d4ba6aabf619eed18ef

Author: Alon Levy <address@hidden>
Date:   Thu Nov 1 14:56:00 2012 +0200

    hw/qxl: qxl_send_events: nop if stopped

    Added a trace point for easy logging.

    RHBZ: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=870972

> http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=fe512d65e0b752dfa7af6cfb374a0820d35040d0

Author: Eduardo Otubo <address@hidden>
Date:   Thu Nov 29 13:56:41 2012 -0200

    seccomp: adding new syscalls (bugzilla 855162)

    According to the bug 855162[0] - there's the need of adding new syscalls
    to the whitelist when using Qemu with Libvirt.

    [0] - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=855162

> http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=ad0b5321f1f797274603ebbe20108b0750baee94

Author: Luiz Capitulino <address@hidden>
Date:   Fri Oct 5 16:47:57 2012 -0300

    Call MADV_HUGEPAGE for guest RAM allocations

    This makes it possible for QEMU to use transparent huge pages (THP)
    when transparent_hugepage/enabled=madvise. Otherwise THP is only
    used when it's enabled system wide.


I'm not sure all this qualifies for -stable.  Can you comment on
these a bit please, why do you think it is important to push it
to stable?

For example, the last commit (I tried to push similar change to
qemu several times, but go no reply, so a patch by Luiz has been
accepted instead) looks more like an enhancement than a bugfix.

Some of that is applicable to 1.1-stable too, provided they're
applicable for -stable at all.

Thanks,

/mjt