Re: [Qemu-stable] [PATCH 00/54] Patch Round-up for stable 2.11.1, freeze on 2018-02-12

[Greg Kurz]

On Mon, 12 Feb 2018 16:13:23 +0000
"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <address@hidden> wrote:

> * Peter Lieven (address@hidden) 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 address@hidden 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.
> 
> The 'migration: Recover block devices if failure in device state' is
> probably a good candidate.
> Another one would be Greg Kurz's:
> 875fcd013ab68c64802998b22f54f0184479d21b - migration: incoming postcopy 
> advise sanity checks
> 

Yeah. Mike pushed it to its stable-2.11-staging tree:

https://github.com/mdroth/qemu/commit/a3fd64f2fe9f90c7b4d002910a54049ee6a09b64

Cheers,

--
Greg

> Dave
> 
> > Thank you,
> > Peter
> >   
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> Dr. David Alan Gilbert / address@hidden / Manchester, UK
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