From patchwork Tue Nov 22 11:26:21 2022 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Henry Wang X-Patchwork-Id: 13052247 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from lists.xenproject.org (lists.xenproject.org [192.237.175.120]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 11166C43219 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2022 11:27:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lists.xenproject.org with outflank-mailman.447079.702959 (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oxRQq-0007F7-NB; Tue, 22 Nov 2022 11:27:16 +0000 X-Outflank-Mailman: Message body and most headers restored to incoming version Received: by outflank-mailman (output) from mailman id 447079.702959; Tue, 22 Nov 2022 11:27:16 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.xenproject.org) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oxRQq-0007Ey-K5; Tue, 22 Nov 2022 11:27:16 +0000 Received: by outflank-mailman (input) for mailman id 447079; Tue, 22 Nov 2022 11:27:15 +0000 Received: from se1-gles-flk1-in.inumbo.com ([94.247.172.50] helo=se1-gles-flk1.inumbo.com) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oxRQp-0007EN-Qr for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2022 11:27:15 +0000 Received: from foss.arm.com (foss.arm.com [217.140.110.172]) by se1-gles-flk1.inumbo.com (Halon) with ESMTP id 82789161-6a58-11ed-8fd2-01056ac49cbb; Tue, 22 Nov 2022 12:26:30 +0100 (CET) Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.121.207.14]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E39012FC; Tue, 22 Nov 2022 03:27:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from a015966.shanghai.arm.com (a015966.shanghai.arm.com [10.169.190.24]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 28B9E3F73B; Tue, 22 Nov 2022 03:27:01 -0800 (PST) X-BeenThere: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org List-Id: Xen developer discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xenproject.org Precedence: list Sender: "Xen-devel" X-Inumbo-ID: 82789161-6a58-11ed-8fd2-01056ac49cbb From: Henry Wang To: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Cc: Henry Wang , Jan Beulich , Andrew Cooper , Christopher Clark , Nathan Studer , Stewart Hildebrand , Stefano Stabellini , Julien Grall , Bertrand Marquis , Volodymyr Babchuk , Doug Goldstein , Juergen Gross , Dario Faggioli , Elena Ufimtseva , George Dunlap , Nick Rosbrook , Lukasz Hawrylko , "Daniel P . Smith" , =?utf-8?q?Mateusz_M?= =?utf-8?q?=C3=B3wka?= , Kevin Tian , Jun Nakajima , Paul Durrant , =?utf-8?q?Roger_Pau_Monn=C3=A9?= , Tim Deegan , Wei Liu , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Ross Lagerwall , Christian Lindig , David Scott , =?utf-8?q?Marek_Marczykowski-G=C3=B3recki?= , Anthony Perard , Bob Eshleman , Alistair Francis , Connor Davis , Meng Xu , Samuel Thibault , Tamas K Lengyel , Alexandru Isaila , Petre Pircalabu , Daniel De Graaf , Quan Xu , Community Manager Subject: [PATCH v3 1/3] CHANGELOG: Add missing entries for work during the 4.17 release Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 19:26:21 +0800 Message-Id: <20221122112623.1441905-2-Henry.Wang@arm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.25.1 In-Reply-To: <20221122112623.1441905-1-Henry.Wang@arm.com> References: <20221122112623.1441905-1-Henry.Wang@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Signed-off-by: Henry Wang --- v2 -> v3: - Move the uncertain release date to patch #3. v1 -> v2: - Correct wording for two x86 entries (clock frequency calibration and SPR & ADL support) following Jan's suggestion. - Add missing Arm entries from Oleksandr. - Add missing i.MX entry following Stefano's suggestion. --- CHANGELOG.md | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md index adbbb216fa..c593081aaf 100644 --- a/CHANGELOG.md +++ b/CHANGELOG.md @@ -4,16 +4,44 @@ Notable changes to Xen will be documented in this file. The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/) -## [unstable UNRELEASED](https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=shortlog;h=staging) - TBD +## [4.17.0](https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=shortlog;h=staging) ### Changed - On x86 "vga=current" can now be used together with GrUB2's gfxpayload setting. Note that this requires use of "multiboot2" (and "module2") as the GrUB commands loading Xen. + - The "gnttab" option now has a new command line sub-option for disabling the + GNTTABOP_transfer functionality. + - The x86 MCE command line option info is now updated. ### Added / support upgraded + - Out-of-tree builds for the hypervisor now supported. + - The project has officially adopted 4 directives and 24 rules of MISRA-C, + added MISRA-C checker build integration, and defined how to document + deviations. - IOMMU superpage support on x86, affecting PV guests as well as HVM/PVH ones when they don't share page tables with the CPU (HAP / EPT / NPT). - - Support VIRT_SSBD feature for HVM guests on AMD. + - Support VIRT_SSBD feature for HVM guests on AMD and MSR_SPEC_CTRL feature for + SVM guests. + - Improved TSC, CPU, and APIC clock frequency calibration on x86. + - Add mwait-idle support for SPR and ADL on x86. + - Extend security support for hosts to 12 TiB of memory on x86. + - Add command line option to set cpuid parameters for dom0 at boot time on x86. + - Improved static configuration options on Arm. + - cpupools can be specified at boot using device tree on Arm. + - It is possible to use PV drivers with dom0less guests, allowing statically + booted dom0less guests with PV devices. + - On Arm, p2m structures are now allocated out of a pool of memory set aside at + domain creation. + - Improved mitigations against Spectre-BHB on Arm. + - Support VirtIO-MMIO devices in toolstack on Arm. + - Allow setting the number of CPUs to activate at runtime from command line + option on Arm. + - Grant-table support on Arm was improved and hardened by implementing + "simplified M2P-like approach for the xenheap pages" + - Add Renesas R-Car Gen4 IPMMU-VMSA support on Arm. + - Add i.MX lpuart and i.MX8QM initial support on Arm. + - Improved toolstack build system. + - Add Xue - console over USB 3 Debug Capability. ### Removed / support downgraded - dropped support for the (x86-only) "vesa-mtrr" and "vesa-remap" command line options