linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] xen: branch for v5.15-rc3

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Date:   Mon, 27 Sep 2021 09:32:30 +0200
From:   Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...e.com>
To:     Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org,
        boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] xen: branch for v5.15-rc3

On 25.09.2021 16:31, Juergen Gross wrote:
> Linus,
> 
> Please git pull the following tag:
> 
>  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip.git for-linus-5.15b-rc3-tag
> 
> xen: branch for v5.15-rc3
> 
> It contains some minor cleanups and fixes of some theoretical bugs, as
> well as a fix of a bug introduced in 5.15-rc1.

Just FTR that the above doesn't apply to ...

> Jan Beulich (7):
>       xen/x86: drop redundant zeroing from cpu_initialize_context()
>       Xen/gntdev: don't ignore kernel unmapping error
>       swiotlb-xen: ensure to issue well-formed XENMEM_exchange requests
>       PCI: only build xen-pcifront in PV-enabled environments
>       xen/pci-swiotlb: reduce visibility of symbols
>       swiotlb-xen: this is PV-only on x86
>       xen/x86: fix PV trap handling on secondary processors

... the last one here, which fixes a regression introduced in 5.14 and
a long-standing underlying bug.

Jan