Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.11 v3 1/1] Add new add_maintainers.pl script to optimise the workflow when using git format-patch with get_maintainer.pl

2018-05-05 Thread Lars Kurth
y OK. I have reordered the patch (and hence the file) to make the grouping of my comments make more sense. Lars Kurth writes ("[PATCH for-4.11 v3 1/1] Add new add_maintainers.pl script to optimise the workflow when using git format-patch with get_maintainer.pl")

[Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.11 v3 1/1] Add new add_maintainers.pl script to optimise the workflow when using git format-patch with get_maintainer.pl

2018-05-04 Thread Lars Kurth
on <ian.jack...@eu.citrix.com> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> Cc: Julien Grall <julien.gr...@arm.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.w...@oracle.com> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabell...@kernel.org> Cc: Tim Deegan <t...@xen.org> Cc: Wei Liu <wei.

[Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.11 v3 0/1] Add new add_maintainers.pl script to optimise the workflow when using git format-patch with get_maintainer.pl

2018-05-04 Thread Lars Kurth
see https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2018-05/threads.html#00028 Lars Kurth (1): Add new add_maintainers.pl script to optimise the workflow when using git format-patch with get_maintainer.pl scripts/add_maintainers.pl | 512 + 1 fi

[Xen-devel] [PATCH v1 0/2] Add new add_maintainers.pl script to optimise the workflow when using git format-patch with get_maintainer.pl

2018-04-27 Thread Lars Kurth
To avoid issues with duplicate e-mail sending, I also cleaned up MAINTAINERS Lars Kurth (2): Add new add_maintainers.pl script to optimise the workflow when using git format-patch with get_maintainer.pl Replace occurances of xen.org with xenproject.org MAINTAINERS| 30

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v1 2/2] Replace occurances of xen.org with xenproject.org

2018-04-27 Thread Lars Kurth
On 27/04/2018, 10:40, "Wei Liu" <wei.l...@citrix.com> wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 10:30:51AM +0100, Lars Kurth wrote: > KDD DEBUGGER > -M: Tim Deegan <t...@xen.org> > +M: Tim Deegan <t...@xenproject.org> I think T

[Xen-devel] [PATCH v1 1/2] Add new add_maintainers.pl script to optimise the workflow when using git format-patch with get_maintainer.pl

2018-04-27 Thread Lars Kurth
Julien Grall <julien.gr...@arm.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.w...@oracle.com> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabell...@kernel.org> Cc: Tim Deegan <t...@xenproject.org> Cc: Wei Liu <wei.l...@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Lars Kurth <lar

[Xen-devel] [PATCH v1 2/2] Replace occurances of xen.org with xenproject.org

2018-04-27 Thread Lars Kurth
Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@eu.citrix.com> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> Cc: Julien Grall <julien.gr...@arm.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.w...@oracle.com> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabell...@kernel.org> Cc: Tim Deegan <t...@xenproject.org> Cc: Wei Liu

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v1 1/2] Add new add_maintainers.pl script to optimise the workflow when using git format-patch with get_maintainer.pl

2018-04-27 Thread Lars Kurth
Added Anthony as he highlighted the issue which led to the creation of the tool Otherwise I played a little bit more on various series I worked on in the past and there are minor niggles in its usage On 27/04/2018, 10:31, "Lars Kurth" <lars.ku...@citrix.com> wrote:

[Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.11 v2 2/2] Add Designated Reviewer (R:) to MAINTAINERS file and add support for it in get_maintainer.pl

2018-04-27 Thread Lars Kurth
on a number of files using mock entries in MAINTAINERS using ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f ... I also tested --nor to disable the support and it worked as expected. Cc: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.com> Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com> Cc: George Dunlap <george.dun..

[Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.11 v2 0/2] Add Designated Reviewer (R:) to MAINTAINERS (plus a test case)

2018-04-27 Thread Lars Kurth
a RAB via IRC Cc: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.com> Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com> Cc: George Dunlap <george.dun...@eu.citrix.com> Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@eu.citrix.com> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> Cc: Julien Grall <julien.gr...@a

[Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.11 v2 1/2] Add Brian Woods as Designated reviewer to AMD IOMMU and AMD SVM

2018-04-27 Thread Lars Kurth
This was discussed in an IRC discussion post the April x86 meeting. On 27/4/18 Juergen gave a RAB via IRC Cc: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.com> Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com> Cc: George Dunlap <george.dun...@eu.citrix.com> Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@e

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] docs/process/xen-release-management: Lesson to learn

2018-04-27 Thread Lars Kurth
On 27/04/2018, 16:29, "Julien Grall" wrote: On 27/04/18 15:32, Ian Jackson wrote: > George Dunlap writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] docs/process/xen-release-management: Lesson to learn"): >> How would you apply this directive to the particular

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v1 2/2] Replace occurances of xen.org with xenproject.org

2018-04-27 Thread Lars Kurth
On 27/04/2018, 15:22, "Tim Deegan" <t...@xen.org> wrote: At 10:40 +0100 on 27 Apr (1524825602), Wei Liu wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 10:30:51AM +0100, Lars Kurth wrote: > > KDD DEBUGGER > > -M: Tim Deegan <t...@xen.org> > &

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.11 v3 1/1] Add new add_maintainers.pl script to optimise the workflow when using git format-patch with get_maintainer.pl

2018-05-10 Thread Lars Kurth
On 10/05/2018, 14:03, "George Dunlap" <george.dun...@citrix.com> wrote: On 05/10/2018 12:38 PM, George Dunlap wrote: > On 05/04/2018 09:36 AM, Lars Kurth wrote: >> The tool covers step 2 of the following workflow >> >> Step 1: git for

[Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.11 v4 1/1] Add new add_maintainers.pl script to optimise the workflow when using git format-patch with get_maintainer.pl

2018-05-11 Thread Lars Kurth
m.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.w...@oracle.com> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabell...@kernel.org> Cc: Tim Deegan <t...@xen.org> Cc: Wei Liu <wei.l...@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.com> Release-acked-by: Juergen G

[Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.11 v4 0/1] Add new add_maintainers.pl script to optimise the workflow when using git format-patch with get_maintainer.pl

2018-05-11 Thread Lars Kurth
a separate series: see https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2018-05/threads.html#00028 v3 of this patch mainly concerened the user interface. Lars Kurth (1): Add new add_maintainers.pl script to optimise the workflow when using git format-patch with get_maintainer.pl

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.11 v3 1/1] Add new add_maintainers.pl script to optimise the workflow when using git format-patch with get_maintainer.pl

2018-05-08 Thread Lars Kurth
On 08/05/2018, 11:48, "Ian Jackson" <ian.jack...@citrix.com> wrote: Lars Kurth writes ("Re: [PATCH for-4.11 v3 1/1] Add new add_maintainers.pl script to optimise the workflow when using git format-patch with get_maintainer.pl"): > On 04/05/2018, 1

[Xen-devel] [Votel] Graduation Review: Windows PV Driver

2018-05-04 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, A bit more than a week ago, I put out for initial review the proposal for “Graduation Review: Windows PV Driver” at https://xen.markmail.org/thread/vcbvln7aa3ocikx4 There has not been feedback, except for two recorded votes from the Xen Project Hypervisor Team by Ian Jackson and

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.11 0/3] Support matrix: add missing caveat footnotes

2018-05-15 Thread Lars Kurth
This seems to address the issue Lars On 15/05/2018, 16:06, "Ian Jackson" wrote: Juergen Gross writes ("Re: [PATCH for-4.11 0/3] Support matrix: add missing caveat footnotes"): > For the series: > Release-acked-by: Juergen Gross

Re: [Xen-devel] [MirageOS-devel] ViryaOS: proposal for a new Xen Project sub-project

2018-05-18 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi Stefano, what we also need for the project proposal are Sponsor: A sponsor can be a member of the project leadership team of a mature project, a member of the advisory board or the community manager. This ensures that a distinguished community member supports the idea behind the project. I

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5] scripts/add_maintainers.pl: New script

2018-05-15 Thread Lars Kurth
Acked-by: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.com> Although it should probably mention --get-maintainers in the help message Lars On 15/05/2018, 18:12, "Ian Jackson" <ian.jack...@citrix.com> wrote: (Fixed the Subject line.) Ian Jackson writes ("[PATCH] scri

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.11 0/3] Support matrix: add missing caveat footnotes

2018-05-15 Thread Lars Kurth
On 15/05/2018, 16:23, "Lars Kurth" <lars.ku...@citrix.com> wrote: This seems to address the issue Lars On 15/05/2018, 16:06, "Ian Jackson" <ian.jack...@citrix.com> wrote: Juergen Gross writes ("Re: [PATCH for-4.11 0/3] Support

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 2/2] docs/process/xen-release-management: Lesson to learn

2018-05-23 Thread Lars Kurth
On 22/05/2018, 12:45, "Ian Jackson" <ian.jack...@eu.citrix.com> wrote: CC: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.com> CC: Julien Grall <julien.gr...@arm.com> Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@eu.

[Xen-devel] Schedule for our Annual Developer and Design Summit - Design Session Rating and Proposals

2018-05-25 Thread Lars Kurth
Schedule for our Annual Developer and Design Summit We are excited to announce the program and speakers for the Xen Project Developer and Design Summit (https://www.lfasiallc.com/events/xensummit2018/). The summit brings together developers, engineers, and Xen Project power users for in-person

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen Project Security Whitepaper v1 is ready for community review

2018-05-24 Thread Lars Kurth
On 24/05/2018, 01:48, "Steven Haigh" wrote: On 2018-05-22 20:52, Steven Haigh wrote: > On Tuesday, 22 May 2018 8:11:38 PM AEST Jan Beulich wrote: >> >>> On 18.05.18 at 19:53, wrote: >> > Alternative workaround for this would

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen Project Security Whitepaper v1 is ready for community review

2018-05-24 Thread Lars Kurth
On 24/05/2018, 10:00, "Jan Beulich" wrote: >>> On 24.05.18 at 15:50, wrote: > > On 24/05/2018, 01:48, "Steven Haigh" wrote: > > On 2018-05-22 20:52, Steven Haigh wrote: > > On Tuesday, 22 May

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen Project Security Whitepaper v1 is ready for community review

2018-05-18 Thread Lars Kurth
On 18/05/2018, 15:07, "Wei Liu" wrote: On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 07:16:24AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> On 18.05.18 at 12:13, wrote: > > 2.2.4.A > > We've discussed the option of different support life times before (and

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.11 v4 1/1] Add new add_maintainers.pl script to optimise the workflow when using git format-patch with get_maintainer.pl

2018-05-15 Thread Lars Kurth
On 15/05/2018, 16:35, "Ian Jackson" <ian.jack...@citrix.com> wrote: Lars Kurth writes ("[PATCH for-4.11 v4 1/1] Add new add_maintainers.pl script to optimise the workflow when using git format-patch with get_maintainer.pl"): > The tool covers ste

Re: [Xen-devel] [Votel] Graduation Review: Windows PV Driver

2018-06-14 Thread Lars Kurth
Best Regards Lars References * [1] https://xen.markmail.org/thread/vcbvln7aa3ocikx4 On 04/05/2018, 15:52, "Lars Kurth" wrote: And this time with proposal Lars On 04/05/2018, 15:51, "Lars Kurth" wrote: Hi all, A bit more

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen Project Security Process Whitepaper v1 is ready for community review

2018-06-04 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, I tried to summarize this thread (also see https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2018-05/threads.html#01127), CC'ing everyone that contributed or requested to be on the thread. I also moved comments into

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.11] scripts/add_maintainers.pl: Don't call get_maintainers.pl with -f

2018-06-05 Thread Lars Kurth
On 05/06/2018, 19:15, "Juergen Gross" wrote: On 05/06/18 18:39, Julien Grall wrote: > The option -f of scripts/get_maintainers.pl will return the maintainers > of a given file, *not* the list of maintainers if the file was a patch. > > The output expected of

[Xen-devel] [Notes for xen summit 2018 design session ] Testing/Building with Docker/GitLab

2018-07-02 Thread Lars Kurth
The notes were taken by Florian Schmidt of NEC. Thank you This has some actions on: Lars K, Xudong H, Doug G, Andrew C and Andrii A (who was not present) We should certainly try and make progress on this as it has the potential to make life for code reviewers easier: it may be worth to organize

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen Project Security Process Whitepaper v1 is ready for community review

2018-06-27 Thread Lars Kurth
On 27/06/2018, 22:47, "Steven Haigh" wrote: On Wednesday, 27 June 2018 7:19:58 PM AEST Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> On 27.06.18 at 06:05, wrote: > > Right now, we're at a stage where we could probably justify a new release > > of 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9, and 4.10 due to the depth of

[Xen-devel] [Notes for xen summit 2018 design session] Process changes: is the 6 monthly release Cadence too short, Security Process, ...

2018-07-02 Thread Lars Kurth
# Topics to discuss ### Release Cadence 2 years ago, we moved to a 6 monthly release cadence. The idea was to help companies getting features into Xen in a more predictable way. This appears not to have worked. At the same time, the number of releases is creating problems for the security

Re: [Xen-devel] [Notes for xen summit 2018 design session] Process changes: is the 6 monthly release Cadence too short, Security Process, ...

2018-07-03 Thread Lars Kurth
On 03/07/2018, 07:26, "Juergen Gross" wrote: On 02/07/18 20:03, Lars Kurth wrote: > We then had a discussion around why the positive benefits didn't materialize: > * Andrew and a few other believe that the model isn't broken, but that the issue is with how we

Re: [Xen-devel] [Notes for xen summit 2018 design session] Process changes: is the 6 monthly release Cadence too short, Security Process, ...

2018-07-02 Thread Lars Kurth
Non-html version: apologies Lars From: Lars Kurth Date: Monday, 2 July 2018 at 19:00 To: xen-devel Cc: "committ...@xenproject.org" , Rich Persaud , Doug Goldstein , "advisory-bo...@lists.xenproject.org" Subject: [Notes for xen summit 2018 design session] Process change

[Xen-devel] [Notes for xen summit 2018 design session] Reworking x86 Xen, current status and future plan

2018-07-02 Thread Lars Kurth
Thank you to Florian from NEC for writing these up. They are incomplete,  because we only realized after some time that we didn't have anybody  taking notes. If anyone remembers the earlier parts, please augment ## PV shim got accelerated because of meltdown. was considered for short time to be 

[Xen-devel] [Notes for xen summit 2018 design session] PCI pass-through with de-privileged QEMU

2018-07-02 Thread Lars Kurth
This is a session hosted by Xin Li from Citrix on PCI-passthrough in a deprivleged QEMU. (Went over key points of QEMU de-priv talk - see https://www.slideshare.net/xen_com_mgr/xpdds18-qemu-and-xen-reducing-the-attack-surface-paul-durrant-citrix) Problem is syses nodes need to be opened.

Re: [Xen-devel] [Notes for xen summit 2018 design session] Process changes: is the 6 monthly release Cadence too short, Security Process, ...

2018-07-03 Thread Lars Kurth
On 03/07/2018, 11:01, "Jan Beulich" wrote: >>> On 03.07.18 at 10:06, wrote: > The GitLab discussion was really interesting. Looking at OSSTEST, it > basically performs build test and integration tests on Hardware. Whereas all > these are needed, build testing and testing

Re: [Xen-devel] [Notes for xen summit 2018 design session] Process changes: is the 6 monthly release Cadence too short, Security Process, ...

2018-07-03 Thread Lars Kurth
Combined reply to Jan and Roger Lars On 03/07/2018, 11:07, "Roger Pau Monne" wrote: On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 06:03:39PM +0000, Lars Kurth wrote: > We then had a discussion around why the positive benefits didn't materialize: > * Andrew and a few other believe that

Re: [Xen-devel] [Notes for xen summit 2018 design session] Process changes: is the 6 monthly release Cadence too short, Security Process, ...

2018-07-03 Thread Lars Kurth
Taking the advisory board list off the CC list: will summarize when we have more of a plan forward On 03/07/2018, 11:47, "Juergen Gross" wrote: On 03/07/18 12:23, Lars Kurth wrote: > Combined reply to Jan and Roger > Lars > > On 03/07/2018, 11:07, &q

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.11 v2 2/2] Add new add_maintainers.pl script to optimise the workflow when using git format-patch with get_maintainer.pl

2018-05-01 Thread Lars Kurth
On 01/05/2018, 16:16, "Ian Jackson" <ian.jack...@citrix.com> wrote: Lars Kurth writes ("Re: [PATCH for-4.11 v2 2/2] Add new add_maintainers.pl script to optimise the workflow when using git format-patch with get_maintainer.pl"): > In the cover l

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.11 v2 2/2] Add new add_maintainers.pl script to optimise the workflow when using git format-patch with get_maintainer.pl

2018-04-30 Thread Lars Kurth
On 30/04/2018, 17:21, "Ian Jackson" <ian.jack...@citrix.com> wrote: Lars Kurth writes ("Re: [PATCH for-4.11 v2 2/2] Add new add_maintainers.pl script to optimise the workflow when using git format-patch with get_maintainer.pl"): > Given that git s

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.11 v2 2/2] Add new add_maintainers.pl script to optimise the workflow when using git format-patch with get_maintainer.pl

2018-05-02 Thread Lars Kurth
On 02/05/2018, 11:50, "Ian Jackson" <ian.jack...@citrix.com> wrote: Lars Kurth writes ("Re: [PATCH for-4.11 v2 2/2] Add new add_maintainers.pl script to optimise the workflow when using git format-patch with get_maintainer.pl"): > On 30/04/2018, 1

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.11 v2 2/2] Add new add_maintainers.pl script to optimise the workflow when using git format-patch with get_maintainer.pl

2018-05-02 Thread Lars Kurth
Ian, I addressed most of these locally, but have not dealt with the more functional changes such as options, etc. However there are a few areas I was not planning to address or have questions. On 30/04/2018, 15:36, "Ian Jackson" wrote: +# Get the list of

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.11 v2 2/2] Add new add_maintainers.pl script to optimise the workflow when using git format-patch with get_maintainer.pl

2018-05-02 Thread Lars Kurth
On 02/05/2018, 12:45, "Ian Jackson" <ian.jack...@citrix.com> wrote: Lars Kurth writes ("Re: [PATCH for-4.11 v2 2/2] Add new add_maintainers.pl script to optimise the workflow when using git format-patch with get_maintainer.pl"): > On 02/05/2018, 1

[Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.11 v2 1/2] Replace occurances of xen.org with xenproject.org

2018-04-29 Thread Lars Kurth
Cc: Tim Deegan <t...@xen.org> Cc: Wei Liu <wei.l...@citrix.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.com> Released-acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com> --- MAINTAINERS | 24 1 file changed, 12 inse

[Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.11 v2 0/2] Add new add_maintainers.pl script to optimise the workflow when using git format-patch with get_maintainer.pl

2018-04-29 Thread Lars Kurth
on the same Lars Kurth (2): Replace occurances of xen.org with xenproject.org Add new add_maintainers.pl script to optimise the workflow when using git format-patch with get_maintainer.pl MAINTAINERS| 24 +-- scripts/add_maintainers.pl | 380

[Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.11 v2 2/2] Add new add_maintainers.pl script to optimise the workflow when using git format-patch with get_maintainer.pl

2018-04-29 Thread Lars Kurth
nrad.w...@oracle.com> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabell...@kernel.org> Cc: Tim Deegan <t...@xen.org> Cc: Wei Liu <wei.l...@citrix.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.com> Release-acked-by: Jue

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.11 v2 2/2] Add new add_maintainers.pl script to optimise the workflow when using git format-patch with get_maintainer.pl

2018-05-01 Thread Lars Kurth
On 01/05/2018, 13:52, "Ian Jackson" <ian.jack...@citrix.com> wrote: Lars Kurth writes ("Re: [PATCH for-4.11 v2 2/2] Add new add_maintainers.pl script to optimise the workflow when using git format-patch with get_maintainer.pl"): > On 30/04/2018, 1

[Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.11 v3 2/2] Add Brian Woods as Designated reviewer to AMD IOMMU and AMD SVM

2018-05-01 Thread Lars Kurth
This was discussed in an IRC discussion post the April x86 meeting. On 27/4/18 Juergen gave a RAB via IRC Cc: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.com> Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com> Cc: George Dunlap <george.dun...@eu.citrix.com> Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@e

[Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.11 v3 1/2] Add Designated Reviewer (R:) to MAINTAINERS file and add support for it in get_maintainer.pl

2018-05-01 Thread Lars Kurth
on a number of files using mock entries in MAINTAINERS using ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f ... I also tested --nor to disable the support and it worked as expected. Cc: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.com> Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com> Cc: George Dunlap <george.dun..

[Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.11 v3 0/2] Add Designated Reviewer (R:) to MAINTAINERS (plus a test case)

2018-05-01 Thread Lars Kurth
a RAB via IRC Cc: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.com> Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com> Cc: George Dunlap <george.dun...@eu.citrix.com> Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@eu.citrix.com> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> Cc: Julien Grall <julien.gr...@a

[Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.11 1/2] Replace occurances of xen.org with xenproject.org

2018-05-01 Thread Lars Kurth
l...@citrix.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.com> Released-acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com> --- MAINTAINERS | 24 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b

[Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.11 0/2] MAINTAINERS cleanup

2018-05-01 Thread Lars Kurth
Patches cleaning up the MAINTAINERs file - Replace xen.org with xenproject.org in URLs - Replace http: with https: in URLs - Also fixes the location of linux-2.6.18-xen.hg This was formerly part of https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2018-04/threads.html#02230 Lars Kurth (2

[Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.11 2/2] Replace http: with https: in MAINTAINERs file

2018-05-01 Thread Lars Kurth
Wei Liu <wei.l...@citrix.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.com> --- MAINTAINERS | 8 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 90aa759145..809ee4138a 100644 --- a/MAIN

[Xen-devel] x86 Community Call - Wed May 9, 14:00 - 15:00 UTC - Call for agenda items

2018-05-01 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, please find attached a) Meeting details (just a link with timezones) – the meeting invite will follow when we have an agenda    Gotomeeting, phone bridge details and slack channel will be sent with the meeting invite == Meeting Details == Wed May 9, 14:00 - 15:00 UTC Wed May 9, 15:00

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.11 v2 1/2] Replace occurances of xen.org with xenproject.org

2018-04-30 Thread Lars Kurth
On 30/04/2018, 14:38, "Ian Jackson" <ian.jack...@citrix.com> wrote: Lars Kurth writes ("[PATCH for-4.11 v2 1/2] Replace occurances of xen.org with xenproject.org"): > This is a general clean-up activity. It also avoids mails being > sent to xen-de

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.11 v2 0/2] Add Designated Reviewer (R:) to MAINTAINERS (plus a test case)

2018-04-30 Thread Lars Kurth
action: Lars to propose fixing CC issue in xen.git:MAINTAINERS > copying > the R section entries from Linux.git:MAINTAINERS (will need changes to > get_maintainers.pl also) > > On 27/4/18 Juergen gave a RAB via IRC > > Cc: Lars Kurth <lars.ku..

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.11 v2 0/2] Add Designated Reviewer (R:) to MAINTAINERS (plus a test case)

2018-04-30 Thread Lars Kurth
On 30/04/2018, 14:23, "Ian Jackson" wrote: Jan Beulich writes ("Re: [PATCH for-4.11 v2 0/2] Add Designated Reviewer (R:) to MAINTAINERS (plus a test case)"): > On 30.04.18 at 10:21, wrote: > > On 30/04/2018, 08:57, "Jan Beulich"

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.11 v2 0/2] Add Designated Reviewer (R:) to MAINTAINERS (plus a test case)

2018-04-30 Thread Lars Kurth
On 30/04/2018, 14:39, "George Dunlap" wrote: On 04/30/2018 02:23 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > Jan Beulich writes ("Re: [PATCH for-4.11 v2 0/2] Add Designated Reviewer (R:) to MAINTAINERS (plus a test case)"): >> On 30.04.18 at 10:21,

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen Project Spectre/Meltdown FAQ

2018-01-05 Thread Lars Kurth
> On 5 Jan 2018, at 15:55, Hans van Kranenburg <h...@knorrie.org> wrote: > > On 01/05/2018 12:35 PM, Lars Kurth wrote: >> Hi all, this is a repost of >> https://blog.xenproject.org/2018/01/04/xen-project-spectremeltdown-faq/ >> <https://blog.xenproject.org/20

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen Project Spectre/Meltdown FAQ

2018-01-08 Thread Lars Kurth
Hans, I updated the FAQ on the blog. Thank you for your input. Lars > On 5 Jan 2018, at 15:55, Hans van Kranenburg <h...@knorrie.org> wrote: > > On 01/05/2018 12:35 PM, Lars Kurth wrote: >> Hi all, this is a repost of >> https://blog.xenproject.org/2018/01/04/xen-

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen Project Spectre/Meltdown FAQ

2018-01-08 Thread Lars Kurth
> On 7 Jan 2018, at 17:11, Andrew Cooper wrote: > > Since PVH does not yet support PCI passthrough, are there other recommended SP3 mitigations for 64-bit PV driver domains? >>> Lock them down? Device driver domains, even if not fully trusted, are >>>

[Xen-devel] Preparing for GSoC and Outreachy : getting Outreach Program Projects into good shape

2018-01-08 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi All, it's this time of the year again to prepare for GSoC/Outreachy! The application deadline for orgs is January 23 - February 11: ideally we will have a good updated lists of projects by then as Google will look at the quality of the project list. I will also need co-org admins: @Mindy

Re: [Xen-devel] Radical proposal: ship not-fully-tidied shim as 4.10.1

2018-01-08 Thread Lars Kurth
> On 8 Jan 2018, at 17:45, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > But this is not a usual situation. This time, we don't have the time > to wait. > > Opinions ? > > Ian. +1 ___ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org

Re: [Xen-devel] Radical proposal v2: Publish Amazon's verison now, Citrix's version soon

2018-01-10 Thread Lars Kurth
> On 10 Jan 2018, at 13:51, Juergen Gross wrote: > > On 10/01/18 14:34, George Dunlap wrote: >> * Executive summary >> [snip] >> >> Regardless of what we think of step 2, I think we should take step 1 >> immediately. >> >> Let me know what you think. Thank you for putting

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen Project Spectre/Meltdown FAQ

2018-01-11 Thread Lars Kurth
t;>> On Sun, 7 Jan 2018, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: >>>> On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 07:05:56PM +, Andrew Cooper wrote: >>>>> On 05/01/18 18:16, Rich Persaud wrote: >>>>>>> On Jan 5, 2018, at 06:35, Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@gmail.com &g

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen Project Spectre/Meltdown FAQ

2018-01-11 Thread Lars Kurth
And this time with attachment Matrix.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document On 11 Jan 2018, at 09:15, Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@gmail.com> wrote:I am wondering whether something like the attached table would make understanding the FAQ easier. Page 1 is clearly what is Xen specific and we defi

[Xen-devel] Xen Project Spectre/Meltdown FAQ

2018-01-05 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, this is a repost of https://blog.xenproject.org/2018/01/04/xen-project-spectremeltdown-faq/ for xen-users/xen-devel. If you have questions, please reply to this thread and we will try and improve the FAQ based on questions. Regards Lars Google’s Project Zero announced several

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen Project Spectre/Meltdown FAQ

2018-01-05 Thread Lars Kurth
Julien, > On 5 Jan 2018, at 14:40, Julien Grall wrote: > > (apologies for the formatting) > > Hi Lars, > > Thank you for putting together an FAQ. > > Few comments below around Arm. > > Systems running Xen, like all operating systems and hypervisors, are >

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/5] xen/arm: Introduce enable callback to enable a capabilities on each online CPU

2018-01-17 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi Julien, > On 17 Jan 2018, at 12:31, Julien Grall wrote: > > If you took the code from Linux, you need to add the original Signed-off-by from the Linux commit. Aside from that: >>> >>> There are multiple commits touching this function. So I followed

Re: [Xen-devel] Preparing for GSoC and Outreachy : getting Outreach Program Projects into good shape

2018-01-23 Thread Lars Kurth
accepted, we will have to have another go at the project list Best Regards Lars > On 8 Jan 2018, at 15:19, Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > it's this time of the year again to prepare for GSoC/Outreachy! The > application deadline for orgs is

[Xen-devel] Changes to Outreachy program : need URGENT input from mentors (was Re: Preparing for GSoC and Outreachy )

2018-01-30 Thread Lars Kurth
ease raise your hand now by replying to this thread or contacting me privately and I will help Best Regards Lars > On 8 Jan 2018, at 15:19, Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > it's this time of the year again to prepare for GSoC/Outreachy! The

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen ARM community call Tuesday 13th February 5PM UTC

2018-02-06 Thread Lars Kurth
a...@epam.com> wrote: Hi Lars As we do not have Jira access, it would be better to do it on Wiki or "something else". -- Artem On 06.02.18 12:53, Lars Kurth wrote: > Adding Rich > >> I think it would be hugely beneficial if t

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen ARM community call Tuesday 13th February 5PM UTC

2018-02-06 Thread Lars Kurth
Adding Rich > I think it would be hugely beneficial if there could be an open > repository of information that describes in clear terms what the > specific engineering items are which are needed to make Xen viable for > assessment towards safety certification. Very good idea If

Re: [Xen-devel] Excited for Xen Project in Outreachy

2018-02-14 Thread Lars Kurth
From: KANIKA SAINI <kanika16...@iiitd.ac.in> Date: Wednesday, 14 February 2018 at 17:25 To: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.com> Subject: Excited for Xen Project in Outreachy Greetings, Lars. I'm Kanika Saini and I'm super excited to begin contributing to Xen! I seek guidance in choosing the s

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen-Project apply | Outreachy (interest in 1. High-level Language Support with Unikraft / 2. Xen on ARM: create multiple guests from device tree)

2018-02-16 Thread Lars Kurth
t. Feel free to ask any questions! Regards Lars From: Rupal Jain <rupal15...@iiitd.ac.in> Date: Friday, 16 February 2018 at 10:24 To: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.com> Subject: Xen-Project apply | Outreachy Hi, Lars. I am Rupal Jain, a 3-rd year undergrad majoring in Comput

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen release cycle revisited

2018-01-02 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi Juergen: thank you for raising this. As far as I can tell, the switch to the 6-monthly release model has had some consequences, some of which were predicted, others were not. So, I think we should probably review the decision. Key concerns raised: • Too much work in actively maintaining 4

Re: [Xen-devel] [Notes for xen summit 2018 design session] Graphic virtualization

2018-08-02 Thread Lars Kurth
On 02/08/2018, 16:27, "Artem Mygaiev" wrote: Hello Julien On 02.08.18 12:56, Julien Grall wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry for the late posting. The notes were taken by Stefano Stabellini. > Thank you. > > This has some clarifications requested from EPAM

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] docs/xl: Clarify documentation for mem-max and mem-set

2018-08-01 Thread Lars Kurth
to me what anyone would use it for, and it's only likely to confuse people. Should it be deprecated, if it isn't useful? CC: Ian Jackson CC: Wei Liu CC: Andrew Cooper CC: Jan Beulich CC: Tim Deegan CC: Konrad Wilk CC: Stefano Stabellini CC: Julien Grall

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.12 release planning

2018-07-27 Thread Lars Kurth
> On 27 Jul 2018, at 08:51, Juergen Gross wrote: > > On 27/07/18 00:13, Stefano Stabellini wrote: >> On Wed, 25 Jul 2018, Juergen Gross wrote: >>> Its time to plan the Xen 4.12 release dates. >>> >>> There have been concerns with the schedule of 6 months between releases, >>> as this scheme

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] docs/xl: Clarify documentation for mem-max and mem-set

2018-08-02 Thread Lars Kurth
On 02/08/2018, 11:24, "George Dunlap" wrote: On 08/01/2018 05:16 PM, Lars Kurth wrote: > > > On 01/08/2018, 16:41, "George Dunlap" wrote: > > mem-set is the primary command that users will need to use and > u

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Point links to new location of the TPM Emulator formerly hosted on Berlios

2018-08-02 Thread Lars Kurth
On 02/08/2018, 13:57, "Wei Liu" wrote: On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 01:40:23PM +0100, Lars Kurth wrote: > Signed-off-by: Lars Kurth > --- > docs/man/xen-vtpm.pod.7 | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/do

[Xen-devel] [BUG] docs: our man page generation uses http://man.he.net/ by default which causes broken links. It should be changed to point to a relative path

2018-08-02 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, most of our man pages on pretty much all releases from 4.2 contain broken links. For example: In https://xenbits.xen.org/docs/unstable/man/xl.cfg.5.html the source contains: "For more details, see L." Maps onto http://man.he.net/man7/xl-numa-placement (does not exist) “See 

Re: [Xen-devel] [BUG] docs: our man page generation uses http://man.he.net/ by default which causes broken links. It should be changed to point to a relative path

2018-08-02 Thread Lars Kurth
On 02/08/2018, 12:24, "Lars Kurth" wrote: Hi all, most of our man pages on pretty much all releases from 4.2 contain broken links. For example: In https://xenbits.xen.org/docs/unstable/man/xl.cfg.5.html the source contains: "For more

[Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] Point to new location of Virtual Machine Generation ID

2018-08-02 Thread Lars Kurth
Signed-off-by: Lars Kurth --- docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5.in | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5.in b/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5.in index b72718151b..539bf7fe78 100644 --- a/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5.in +++ b/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5.in @@ -2054,7 +2054,7

[Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/2] docs: fix various out-of-date links in man pages

2018-08-02 Thread Lars Kurth
Lars Kurth (2): Point links to new location of the TPM Emulator formerly hosted on Berlios Point to new location of Virtual Machine Generation ID docs/man/xen-vtpm.pod.7 | 2 +- docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5.in | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) -- 2.13.0

[Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Point links to new location of the TPM Emulator formerly hosted on Berlios

2018-08-02 Thread Lars Kurth
Signed-off-by: Lars Kurth --- docs/man/xen-vtpm.pod.7 | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/man/xen-vtpm.pod.7 b/docs/man/xen-vtpm.pod.7 index 8de67f4d94..52721e6c83 100644 --- a/docs/man/xen-vtpm.pod.7 +++ b/docs/man/xen-vtpm.pod.7 @@ -374,4 +374,4 @@ C

Re: [Xen-devel] x86 Community Call - Wed Aug 15, 14:00 - 15:00 UTC - Call for agenda items

2018-08-08 Thread Lars Kurth
> I'd like to ask about Xen's memory scrubbing, to better understand the > changes made to it in recent versions of Xen (4.10+) and the community > understanding of requirements on it. That looks good. Will add Lars From: Christopher Clark Date: Wednesday, 8 August 2018 at 01:28 To: L

Re: [Xen-devel] x86 Community Call - Wed Aug 15, 14:00 - 15:00 UTC - Agenda items

2018-08-15 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all: I put an agenda + minutes link at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zf9saqOvxAsIDvHPIFpzy56zsUdhu4LcHouQ0Uf2RGw/edit?usp=sharing I added L1 Terminal Fault to the agenda (as this likely will come up under AOB anyway) Lars On 14/08/2018, 09:12, "Sergey Dyasli" wrote: On Mon,

Re: [Xen-devel] x86 Community Call - Wed Aug 15, 14:00 - 15:00 UTC - Agenda items

2018-08-14 Thread Lars Kurth
Revised Agenda: * 4.10+ changes to Xen's memory scrubbing: discussion of the changes that made to it in recent versions of Xen (4.10+) - Christopher * I think we need to talk about how we mean to unblock large chunks of work - Jan (see example list below) * Project Management stuff to keep

[Xen-devel] x86 Community Call - Wed Aug 15, 14:00 - 15:00 UTC - Call for agenda items

2018-08-07 Thread Lars Kurth
Dear community members,   please send me agenda items for next week’s community call by this Friday. Note that this a week later than normal, because I had community calls in my diary as the week before Advisory Board meetings (not the 2nd Wed of each month) and I forgot to send out the agenda.

Re: [Xen-devel] x86 Community Call - Wed Aug 15, 14:00 - 15:00 UTC - Agenda items

2018-08-13 Thread Lars Kurth
, 10:26, "Lars Kurth" wrote: Dear community members, please send me agenda items for next week’s community call by this Friday. Note that this a week later than normal, because I had community calls in my diary as the week before Advisory Board meetings (not t

[Xen-devel] automation: Creating a patchwork instance to improve pre-commit build testing

2018-07-23 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, Wei and Doug have recently been improving [xen.git] / automation / build, implementing some of the functionality outlined in [1] (see "CI / CD" heading).  We are intending to take every patch series that is sent to xen-devel and create a branch at https://gitlab.com/xen-project/xen.git

Re: [Xen-devel] [Minios-devel] automation: Creating a patchwork instance to improve pre-commit build testing

2018-07-24 Thread Lars Kurth
> On 24 Jul 2018, at 10:24, Wei Liu wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 03:06:08AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote: > On 23.07.18 at 18:40, wrote: >>> # How does this impact me? >>> The contribution workflow is *not* impacted by this change, but once up and >>> running the following will happen

Re: [Xen-devel] automation: Creating a patchwork instance to improve pre-commit build testing

2018-07-24 Thread Lars Kurth
On 24/07/2018, 10:06, "Jan Beulich" wrote: >>> On 23.07.18 at 18:40, wrote: > This does mean though that series which do not build or show other issues, > will likely not be reviewed until the tests pass. This would lessen the > burden on reviewers, as they will know

Re: [Xen-devel] [Minios-devel] automation: Creating a patchwork instance to improve pre-commit build testing

2018-07-24 Thread Lars Kurth
On 24/07/2018, 10:46, "Wei Liu" wrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 10:38:24AM +0100, Lars Kurth wrote: > > > > On 24 Jul 2018, at 10:24, Wei Liu wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 03:06:08AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote: &g

Re: [Xen-devel] [Notes for xen summit 2018 design session] Process changes: is the 6 monthly release Cadence too short, Security Process, ...

2018-07-19 Thread Lars Kurth
On 19/07/2018, 08:40, "Juergen Gross" wrote: > **ACTION: George will put together a survey for the committers outlining the issue and > trade-offs and then go from there** > Ping? Anything new? I'd like to know the dates for 4.12... Adding George: He was doing the

Re: [Xen-devel] automation: Creating a patchwork instance to improve pre-commit build testing - Summary of discussion so far

2018-07-25 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, given this was a fairly lengthy thread, I thought I'd summarize. Although I originally thought the proposal was uncontroversial, Jan has raised some concerns about extra e-mails that would be sent by the patch bot (aka 1 additional mail per series). From the discussion, I got the sense

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