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

From: Jan Beulich
Date: Fri Feb 15 2013 - 11:47:56 EST


>>> On 15.02.13 at 17:26, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> 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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