Re: [GIT PULL] (xen) stable/vmalloc-3.2 for Linux 3.2-rc0

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Sat Nov 05 2011 - 09:34:16 EST


On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 03:12:12PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> Hey Linus,
>
> Please git pull the following git branch:
>
> git pull git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen stable/vmalloc-3.2

Ping?

>
> wherein:
> #stable/vmalloc-3.2 is based on git commit a102a9ece5489e1718cd7543aa079082450ac3a2
> (Linux 3.1-rc8): and it does three major things:
> a). make the backend driver use the API provided by xenbus module instead of its
> own handling (which was duplicated across backends),
> b). removes dead code (ia64),
> c). lays out the groundwork for removing the 'vmalloc_sync_all' patch
> that was added in v3.1 as a bug-fix.
>
> Note: The patches touch other maintainers trees and I've gotten
> Acks from them to do this as one patchset instead of cutting it in
> small pieces and parceling out.
>
> Note2: The git history is a bit fresh (4 days old) in the branch b/c
> I've edited the git commits to add axboe and davem's Ack-by.
>
> David Vrabel (3):
> xen: use generic functions instead of xen_{alloc, free}_vm_area()
> block: xen-blkback: use API provided by xenbus module to map rings
> net: xen-netback: use API provided by xenbus module to map rings
>
> arch/ia64/include/asm/xen/grant_table.h | 29 -----------
> arch/ia64/xen/grant-table.c | 62 ------------------------
> arch/x86/include/asm/xen/grant_table.h | 7 ---
> arch/x86/xen/grant-table.c | 2 +-
> drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h | 5 +--
> drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c | 54 +++------------------
> drivers/net/xen-netback/common.h | 11 ++--
> drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c | 80 +++++++------------------------
> drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_client.c | 6 +-
> include/xen/grant_table.h | 1 -
> 10 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 223 deletions(-)


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/