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VFIO fixes 2016-09-15

Fix a 2.7.0 regression affecting POWER8 systems in relation to EEH,
possibly extending to subtle changes for other devices and archs.
(David Gibson)

usb-mtp: add support for files larger than 4g (gsoc)
xhci & usb-host: bugfixes.

virtio-gpu and vmsvga fixes.

ui: misc small fixes for vnc, spice and curses.

ppc patch queue for 2016-Sep-7

This is my first pull request for the newly opened qemu-2.8 tree.  It
contains a heap of things that were too late for 2.7 and have been
queued for a while.  In particular:
    * A number of preliminary patches for the powernv machine type
        * A substantial cleanup of exception handling which will be
          necessary to support running a TCG with hypervisor
          facilities
    * A start on support for POWER9
        * Some TCG implementations for new POWER9 instructions
        * Some TCG and related cleanups in preparation for POWER9
    * Some assorted TCG optimizations
    * An implementation of the H_CHANGE_LOGICAL_LAN_MAC hypercall
      which allows the MAC address to be changed on the PAPR virtual
      NIC.
    * Add some extra test cases for several machines (this isn't
      strictly in the ppc code, but is most value to ppc)

NOTE: This pull request supersedes ppc-for-2.8-20160906, which had
some problems.  Changes:
  * Dropped BenH's lmw/stmw speedups, which break for
    qemu-system-ppc64 on BE hosts
  * A small fix to Thomas' serial output test to avoid a warning on
    the isapc machine type.
  * Some trivial checkpatch fixes

Note that some of the patches in this series still have large numbers
of checkpatch warnings.  This is because they're moving existing code
that predates most of the checkpatch style conventions.

v2.7.0 release

v2.7.0-rc5 release

v2.7.0-rc4 release

v2.6.1

v2.7.0-rc3 release

ppc patch queue for 2016-08-15

Just a single patch here, I hope this is the last ppc / spapr fix to
squeeze into qemu-2.7.

ppc patch queue for 2016-08-10

Here are some more last minute PAPR and ppc related fixes for
qemu-2.7.  One patch makes compressed memory dumps work with guest
kernels using page sizes up to 64KiB.  This is important since most
current pseries guests use a 64KiB default page size.  The remainder
fix a regression with handling of CPU aliases which causes serious
problem for libvirt.

v2.7.0-rc2 release

ppc patch queue 2016-08-08

This batch has several last minute bug fixes to be merged for
qemu-2.7.

vnc: fixes for "-vnc none".

usb: bugfixes for xen-usb and ehci, mingw build fix.

qemu-2.7: ppc patch queue 2016-08-03

Here's the current set of patches (only 2) for spapr, ppc and related
things.  These are important bugfixes for the stabilizing 2.7 tree.

One is for a regression where confusion between x86 only and generic
KVM irq handling resulted in breakage on KVM/Power.  The other is
fixing (yet another) problem in the vcpu hotplug code: older pseries
machine types which don't support vcpu hotplug weren't correctly
advertising that, potentially leading to crashes or other problems.

v2.7.0-rc1 release

ppc patch queue 2016-07-29

Here are the current pending ppc and spapr related patches for
qemu-2.7.  Given the freeze status, these are all bugfixes, with two
exceptions:

  * There's some final rework of the vcpu hotplug model.  Specifically
    we add spapr specific code on the generic basis Igor established
    to make cpu_index stable for pseries-2.7 and later machine types.
      - This allows us to remove the limitation that cpu cores had to
        be inserted in linear order, and removed in LIFO order.
      - This is worth merging this late in 2.7 because it will avoid
        considerable future grief with management layers needing to
        discover whether out-of-order hotplug is possible, amongst
        other things.
      - For now we do add a constraint that the initial cpu cannot be
        unplugged.
  * We add two extra testcases to make check, for postcopy and
    drive_del on ppc64.
      - Not strictly bugfixes, but safe, because they don't affect the
        actual code, and increase test coverage.

ppc patch queue 2016-07-26

Here's the current batch of ppc and spapr related patches intended for
qemu-2.7.  Given the late stage in 2.7 development, these are all
bugfixes with one exception:

The "spapr: disintricate core-id from DT semantics" changes the way
ids are assigned in the new core-based hotplug infrastructure.  This
isn't strictly a bugfix, but we've determined that the current way of
assigning core-ids will cause considerable grief with future plans for
cpu hotplug.  Therefore it's better to fix this now, late in 2.7,
before we have a released version with the problematic numbering.