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Xen 4.19 release status tracking list [ April ]
Hello everyone,

I would like to share with you a list for status tracking based on Xen
ML and community members comments:

*** Arm ***:
* [PATCH v7 00/14] Arm cache coloring [
https://patchew.org/Xen/20240315105902.160047-1-carlo.nonato@minervasys.tech/
]:
- new patch series version [v7] was sent

* [PATCH v13 00/14] PCI devices passthrough on Arm, part 3 [
https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/20240202213321.1920347-1-stewart.hildebrand@amd.com/
]

* [PATCH v3 0/4] DOMCTL-based guest magic region allocation for 11
domUs [
https://patchew.org/Xen/20240403081626.375313-1-xin.wang2@amd.com/ ]

* [XEN v6 0/3] xen/arm: Add emulation of Debug Data Transfer
Registers [
https://patchew.org/Xen/20240307123943.1991755-1-ayan.kumar.halder@amd.com/
]


*** PPC ***:
* [PATCH v3 0/9] Early Boot Allocation on Power [
https://patchew.org/Xen/cover.1710443965.git.sanastasio@raptorengineering.com/
]:
new patch series version [v3] was sent

*** RISC-V ***:
* [PATCH v4 05/23] Enable build of full Xen for RISC-V [
https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/cover.1708962629.git.oleksii.kurochko@gmail.com/
]:
- one patch of the patch series was merged
- new patch series version [v7] were sent


*** x86 ***:
* [PATCH 0/4] iommu/x86: fixes/improvements for unity range checks [
https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/20240201170159.66330-1-roger.pau@citrix.com/
]:
- almost patch series have been merged already except the patch:
[PATCH 4/4] iommu/x86: make unity range checking more strict

* [PATCH 0/8] x86: support AVX10.1 [
https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/298db76f-d0ee-4d47-931f-1baa1a7546cf@suse.com/
]

* APX support?

* [PATCH v4 0/8] x86emul: misc additions [
https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/9dd23064-c79e-4a50-9c71-c0e73b189944@suse.com/
]

* [PATCH 0/7] VT-d: SATC handling and ATS tidying [
https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/25506838-b818-4686-8c16-3a198338af44@suse.com/
]

* [XEN PATCH 0/9] x86: parallelize AP bring-up during boot [
https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/cover.1699982111.git.krystian.hebel@3mdeb.com/
]

* [PATCH v2 00/12] x86: memcpy() / memset() (non-)ERMS flavors plus
fallout [
https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/8f56a8f4-0482-932f-96a9-c791bebb4610@suse.com/
]
- 6/12 are merged.

* [PATCH v6 0/4] x86/pvh: Support relocating dom0 kernel [
https://patchew.org/Xen/20240327215102.136001-1-jason.andryuk@amd.com/
]

* x86/spec-ctrl: IBPB improvements [
https://patchew.org/Xen/06591b64-2f05-a4cc-a2f3-a74c3c4a76d6@suse.com/
]


*** common ***:
* annotate entry points with type and size" series:
The bulk of this has gone in, but there'll want to be follow-ups.

* [PATCH v2 (resend) 00/27] Remove the directmap [
https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/20240116192611.41112-1-eliasely@amazon.com/
]
- 7/27 were merged.

* [PATCH] move __read_mostly to xen/cache.h [
https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/f25eb5c9-7c14-6e23-8535-2c66772b333e@suse.com/
]

* [XEN PATCH v2 1/3] xen: introduce STATIC_ASSERT_UNREACHABLE() [
https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/42fc6ae8d3eb802429d29c774502ff232340dc84.1706259490.git.federico.serafini@bugseng.com/
]

* MISRA rules updates:
- [PATCH v2] docs/misra/rules.rst update [
https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2402131431070.1925432@ubuntu-linux-20-04-desktop/T/#maded3df1bebe68d0fe53c73e89f996ec395a39e5
]: 1/3 were merged.

- [XEN PATCH v3 0/7] address violations of MISRA C Rule 20.7[
https://patchew.org/Xen/cover.1711700095.git.nicola.vetrini@bugseng.com/
]: new patch series version (v3) were sent.

- [XEN PATCH v3 00/16] xen: address violation of MISRA C:2012
Directive 4.10 [
https://patchew.org/Xen/cover.1710145041.git.simone.ballarin@bugseng.com/
]: 2/16 were merged.

* [PATCH v6 00/8] xen/spinlock: make recursive spinlocks a dedicated
type [ https://patchew.org/Xen/20240327152229.25847-1-jgross@suse.com/
]:
- new patch series version were sent

* [PATCH 0/7] GRUB: Supporting Secure Boot of xen.gz [
https://patchew.org/Xen/20240313150748.791236-1-ross.lagerwall@citrix.com/
]:

* [PATCH v5 0/7] MSI-X support with qemu in stubdomain, and other
related changes:

* [PATCH 0/7] xen/bitops: Reduce the mess, starting with ffs() [
https://patchew.org/Xen/20240313172716.2325427-1-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com/
]:

* [PATCH 0/7] xen/trace: Treewide API cleanup [
https://patchew.org/Xen/20240318163552.3808695-1-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com/
]:

* [PATCH v2 0/6] xenwatchdogd bugfixes and enhancements

* [RFC XEN PATCH v6 0/5] Support device passthrough when dom0 is PVH
on Xen [
https://patchew.org/Xen/20240328063402.354496-1-Jiqian.Chen@amd.com/ ]


*** Completed ***:
*** Arm ***:
* xen/arm64: Rework the MMU-off code (idmap) so it is self-
contained

*** x86 ***:
* tools: enable xenstore-stubdom to use 9pfs

*** common ***:
* NUMA: no need for asm/numa.h when !NUMA
* xen: move BUG_ON(), WARN_ON(), ASSERT(), ASSERT_UNREACHABLE() to
xen/bug.h
* xen/lib: introduce generic find next bit operations
* Introduce generic headers
* xen/livepatch: fixes for the pre-apply / post-revert hooks
* limit passing around of cpu_user_regs

Please reply with items you would like to see in 4.19 so that people
know what is happening and prioritize accordingly.
You're welcome to provide a description and use cases of the feature
you're working on.

Have a nice week!

Best regards,
Oleksii