Document some of the relevant changes during the 4.16 release cycle.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Release-Acked-by: Ian Jackson <iwj@xenproject.org>
Using qemu-traditional as device model is deprecated for some time now.
So change the default for building it to "disable". This will affect
ioemu-stubdom, too, as there is a direct dependency between the two.
Today it is possible to use a PVH/HVM Linux-based stubdom as device
model. Additionally using ioemu-stubdom isn't really helping for
security, as it requires to run a very old and potentially buggy qemu
version in a PV domain. This is adding probably more security problems
than it is removing by using a stubdom.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <iwj@xenproject.org>
Release-acked-by: Ian Jackson <iwj@xenproject.org>
Using qemu-traditional as device model is deprecated for some time now.
So change the default for building it to "disable". This will affect
ioemu-stubdom, too, as there is a direct dependency between the two.
Today it is possible to use a PVH/HVM Linux-based stubdom as device
model. Additionally using ioemu-stubdom isn't really helping for
security, as it requires to run a very old and potentially buggy qemu
version in a PV domain. This is adding probably more security problems
than it is removing by using a stubdom.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <iwj@xenproject.org>
Release-Acked-by: Ian Jackson <iwj@xenproject.org>
The stubdom based pv-grub is using a very outdated version of grub
(0.97) and should not be used any longer. Mainline grub has support for
PV guests for a long time now, so that should be used as a boot loader
of a PV domain.
So disable building pv-grub per default. In case someone really wants
to continue using it he/she can still use a pv-grub binary from an older
Xen version or manually enable building it via:
configure --enable-pv-grub
[ This was already disabled in osstest by 8dee6e333622
"make-flight: Drop pvgrub (pvgrub1) tests" -iwj ]
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <iwj@xenproject.org>
Release-Acked-by: Ian Jackson <iwj@xenproject.org>
This amends commit 980d6acf15 ("IOMMU: make DMA containment of
quarantined devices optional").
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>
The sysconfig variable XENSTORED_ROOTDIR is not used anymore.
It used to point to a directory with tdb files, which is now a tmpfs.
In case the database is not in tmpfs, like on sysv and BSD systems,
xenstored will truncate existing database files during start.
Fixes: 2ef6ace428 ("tools: don't remove tdb data base file before starting xenstored")
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
The change to deny all accesses to MSRs indexes not explicitly handled
prevents leaking unwanted data into guests.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Release-Acked-by: Ian Jackson <iwj@xenproject.org>
And update the release technician checklist to mention to edit it.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <iwj@xenproject.org>
Release-Acked-by: Ian Jackson <iwj@xenproject.org>
Add entries for the relevant changes I've been working on during the
4.14 development time frame. Mostly performance improvements related
to pvshim scalability issues when running with high number of vCPUs.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>
Henry Wang
Ian Jackson
Roger Pau Monne
Juergen Gross
Jan Beulich
Olaf Hering
George Dunlap
Andrew Cooper
Paul Durrant
Jason Andryuk
Wei Liu