linux-kernel - Re: [Xen-devel] What went in Linux 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8 from Xen standpoint.

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Date:	Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:47:47 +0000
From:	"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@...e.com>
To:	"Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk" <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
Cc:	"xen-devel" <xen-devel@...ts.xen.org>, <gavin.bowe@...cle.com>,
	<kurt.hackel@...cle.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] What went in Linux 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8 from Xen
 standpoint.

>>> On 15.02.13 at 17:26, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com> wrote:
> v3.7:
>  - Initial support for ARM working under Xen as both guest and initial 
> domain.
>  - Security fixes.
>  - Fix RCU warning, add fallback code for old hypervisors, fix memory leaks in
>    gntdev driver, fix some pvops calls failing, Fixes in
>    xen-[kbd|fb|blk|net|hvc]-backend to deal with CLOSED transition
>  - Allow xen/privcmd to use v2 of MMAPBATCH command (and fixes for it)
>  - Support Xen backends to work with paged out grants (meaning work with HVM
>    guests that have its memory paged out)
>  - Performance optimization in xen/privcmd for migrating guests.
>  - Performance improvements when doing kdump for PVonHVM guests.
>  - Xen DBGP driver added (USB EHCI debug driver)
>  - FLR support in xen-pciback.
>  - Support wildcards in xen-pciback.hide=(*) argument parsing.
>  - Xen EFI support,

Where?

> and keyboard shift status flag.
>  - Late usage of Xen-SWIOTLB allowing PV PCI passthrough guest to boot without
>    'iommu=soft' as an argument and late initialization of SWIOTLB.
>  - Support more than 128GB in a PV guest.
>  - Cleanups in the initial pagetable creation.

Jan

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