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

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* 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

Dave

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