[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#683286: Changes from 4.1.3-rc3

Bastian Blank waldi at debian.org
Mon Jul 30 14:38:17 UTC 2012


Source: xen
Version: 4.1.3~rc1+hg-20120614.a9c0a89c08f2-5
Severity: important

- x86: Make asmlinkage explicitly a no-op, and avoid usage in arch/x86

Build-fix, done different in Debian.

- tools/ocaml: Fix 2 bit-twiddling bugs and an off-by-one

Relevant for xcp.

- x86_64: Fix off-by-one error setting up the Interrupt Stack Tables

Hypervisor code running with wrong stack. Breaks error handling in some
cases.

- x86/nmi: Fix deadlock in unknown_nmi_error()

Deadlocks the hypervisor if an unknown NMI is received.

- xen: Fix off-by-one error when parsing command line arguments

- tools/pygrub: fix solaris kernel sniff

Patched away in the Debian package.

- x86: update Intel CPUID masking code to latest spec

Allow proper CPUID handling on current Intel CPU. Guests may enable new
features and fail.

- pm: don't truncate processors' ACPI IDs to 8 bits

Allow power-management on unusual configurations or very large systems.

- xen, vtd: Fix device check for devices behind PCIe-to-PCI bridges

Allows usage of more devices via IOMMU.

- x86/cpuidle: add Westmere-EX support to hw residencies reading logic

Hardware support.

- x86/cpuidle: deny access to the I/O port used for EM_SYSIO

- xen: Fix schedule()'s grabbing of the schedule lock

- SVM: fix performance decrease with asid assignment

- x86/mm: fix mod_l1_entry() return value when encountering r/o MMIO
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- x86/PCI: fix guest_io_read() when pci_cfg_ok() denies access

- passthrough: fix xsm-related oversight

Bastian

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