[Xen-devel] Updated key wiki documentation

2018-09-10 Thread Lars Kurth
See https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_Software_Overview_v2 and https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Booting_Overview I'd appreciate a look and feedback. Once in order I will replace https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_Software_Overview with

[Xen-devel] x86 Community Call - Wed Sept 12, 14:00 - 15:00 UTC - Call for agenda items

2018-09-06 Thread Lars Kurth
Dear community members, please send me agenda items for next week’s community call by next Monday. One suggestion which was made to me recently by Rich, Christopher and Daniel was for Daniel to give an overview of Secure Boot, Measured Launch and TrenchBoot. @Daniel, @Christopher, @Rich: would

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

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

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

[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] [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 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] [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] [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] [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] [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] 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

[Xen-devel] Xen Project Developer Summit 2018: Slides and Video recordings

2018-07-25 Thread Lars Kurth
Dear community members, if you have not been able to attend the developer summit, you will find presentations, session recordings and design session notes in the following places: Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/search/slideshow?searchfrom=header=XPDDS18 Videos:

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.12 release planning

2018-07-25 Thread Lars Kurth
> On 25 Jul 2018, at 12:45, Juergen Gross wrote: > > On 25/07/18 13:39, Lars Kurth wrote: >> >> >>> On 25 Jul 2018, at 12:24, George Dunlap >> <mailto:dunl...@umich.edu>> wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 10:22 AM, Juerge

Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.12 release planning

2018-07-25 Thread Lars Kurth
> On 25 Jul 2018, at 12:24, George Dunlap wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 10:22 AM, Juergen Gross > wrote: >> >> fFFR...ffFFR...ffFFR...f >> >> We can rule out several variants with release dates just before or in a >> holiday season: >>

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

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, 13:00, "Jan Beulich" wrote: >>> On 24.07.18 at 13:48, wrote: > In my personal opinion, just sending CI email as "reply-all" is fine. I > do not mind having an extra email per patch in my mailbox. This is exactly what I'm afraid of - when you're Cc-ed on a

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

2018-07-24 Thread Lars Kurth
On 24/07/2018, 11:19, "Wei Liu" wrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 04:04:05AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote: > I'm afraid my personal bar for any such automation is pretty > high: There must not ever be any negative effect from such an > addition. Positive effects would of course be very

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

2018-07-24 Thread Lars Kurth
On 24/07/2018, 10:34, "Jan Beulich" wrote: >>> On 24.07.18 at 11:24, 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,

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] [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

[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] [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] [PATCH] xen: oprofile/nmi_int.c: Drop unwanted sexual reference

2018-07-12 Thread Lars Kurth
> On 12 Jul 2018, at 15:49, Wei Liu wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 03:41:55PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: >> This is not really very nice. >> >> I don't understand the technical details here but `violence' is >> probably fair. The word `violence' is often used metaphorically in a >>

Re: [Xen-devel] x86 Community Call - Wed July 11, 14:00 - 15:00 UTC - Minutes

2018-07-12 Thread Lars Kurth
published) Lars From: "Ji, John" Date: Thursday, 12 July 2018 at 13:33 To: Lars Kurth , xen-devel Cc: "committ...@xenproject.org" , Tamas K Lengyel , intel-xen , "daniel.ki...@oracle.com" , Roger Monne , Christopher Clark , Rich Persaud , Brian Woods , Stef

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

2018-07-12 Thread Lars Kurth
On 06/07/2018, 17:42, "Lars Kurth" wrote: Hi all, (I also moved the AB to BCC) I summarized the discussion in https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W7OuISUau-FtPG6tIinD4GXYFb-hKDjaqTj84pogNrA/edit?usp=sharing I may have missed some things or misinterp

[Xen-devel] [Notes for xen summit 2018 design session] SGX deep dive and SGX virtualization design discussion

2018-07-12 Thread Lars Kurth
The notes and PPT were sent to me by Kai to be published An SGX back-ground presentation can be found at https://www.slideshare.net/xen_com_mgr/xpdds18-design-session-sgx-deep-dive-and-sgx-virtualization-discussion-kai-huang-intel Key agreements during a discussion between present maintainers

Re: [Xen-devel] x86 Community Call - Wed July 11, 14:00 - 15:00 UTC - Call details and agenda

2018-07-10 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, you can find the proposed agenda at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fWQMuiblTmiNkWGGNbz20AQtbbnvtohxnUjhX2pA2jU/edit?usp=sharing covering essentially * Release Cadence for Xen 4.12 * Project Management stuff to keep the Momentum going There could be other items which we could add,

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] SUPPORT.md: Support lifetime for 4.11

2018-07-09 Thread Lars Kurth
> On 9 Jul 2018, at 14:30, Juergen Gross wrote: > > On 09/07/18 15:26, Ian Jackson wrote: >> Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson >> CC: Juergen Gross >> CC: Lars Kurth >> --- >> SUPPORT.md | 4 ++-- >> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-

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

2018-07-06 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, (I also moved the AB to BCC) I summarized the discussion in https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W7OuISUau-FtPG6tIinD4GXYFb-hKDjaqTj84pogNrA/edit?usp=sharing I may have missed some things or misinterpreted them, but it looks as if consensus is emerging in some areas. I would like to

[Xen-devel] x86 Community Call - Wed July 11, 14:00 - 15:00 UTC - Call for agenda items

2018-07-05 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, please find attached information about the next x86 community call. As we have made significant progress on most of the open issues, I wanted to start with a clean slate from a topic’s perspective. In other words, let’s have a very quick status update section and otherwise cover new

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

2018-07-05 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, at some point we need to take a step back and summarize this discussion and establish a) what seems to be agreed b) what is possible c) and what is controversial I am sort of volunteering for this and was planning to do so tomorrow. Lars On 05/07/2018, 13:20, "Juergen Gross" wrote:

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

2018-07-05 Thread Lars Kurth
On 05/07/2018, 10:50, "Julien Grall" wrote: On 05/07/18 10:48, Wei Liu wrote: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 05:18:15PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote: >> Hi Lars, >> >> It looks like this series has never been merged. Do you know that state of >> it? >> >>

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] [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
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
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] 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

[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.

[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

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] [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

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

[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, 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

2018-05-24 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] [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.

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] [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 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] [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 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

[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

2018-05-10 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

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

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] [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

[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 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.

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

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

2018-05-01 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

[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 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 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 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 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] [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 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 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

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 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
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] [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
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..

[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 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

[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 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

[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..

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 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:

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 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

[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

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