[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "x86/xen: build "Xen PV" APIC driver for domU as well" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Thu Sep 3 10:51:00 UTC 2015


On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 11:41:38AM +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 03/09/15 11:37, Luis Henriques wrote:
> > This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
> > 
> >     x86/xen: build "Xen PV" APIC driver for domU as well
> > 
> > to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
> > which can be found at:
> > 
> >     http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue
> > 
> > This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt17.
> > 
> > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
> > reply to this email.
> 
> This commit is not needed for 3.16 since commit
> feb44f1f7a4ac299d1ab1c3606860e70b9b89d69 (x86/xen: provide a "Xen PV"
> APIC driver to support >255 VCPUs) is only present in v4.1 and later.

Thanks a lot, David.  I'll drop it from the 3.16 queue.  In fact, I had
dropped 87ffd2b9bb74 ("x86/xen: make CONFIG_XEN depend on
CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC") for that same reason...

Cheers,
--
Luís




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