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<title>linux-toradex.git/include/xen/interface, branch v4.5-rc6</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge branch 'for-4.5/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2016-01-22T02:19:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-22T02:19:38+00:00</published>
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Pull block driver updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the block driver pull request for 4.5, with the exception of
  NVMe, which is in a separate branch and will be posted after this one.

  This pull request contains:

   - A set of bcache stability fixes, which have been acked by Kent.
     These have been used and tested for more than a year by the
     community, so it's about time that they got in.

   - A set of drbd updates from the drbd team (Andreas, Lars, Philipp)
     and Markus Elfring, Oleg Drokin.

   - A set of fixes for xen blkback/front from the usual suspects, (Bob,
     Konrad) as well as community based fixes from Kiri, Julien, and
     Peng.

   - A 2038 time fix for sx8 from Shraddha, with a fix from me.

   - A small mtip32xx cleanup from Zhu Yanjun.

   - A null_blk division fix from Arnd"

* 'for-4.5/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (71 commits)
  null_blk: use sector_div instead of do_div
  mtip32xx: restrict variables visible in current code module
  xen/blkfront: Fix crash if backend doesn't follow the right states.
  xen/blkback: Fix two memory leaks.
  xen/blkback: make st_ statistics per ring
  xen/blkfront: Handle non-indirect grant with 64KB pages
  xen-blkfront: Introduce blkif_ring_get_request
  xen-blkback: clear PF_NOFREEZE for xen_blkif_schedule()
  xen/blkback: Free resources if connect_ring failed.
  xen/blocks: Return -EXX instead of -1
  xen/blkback: make pool of persistent grants and free pages per-queue
  xen/blkback: get the number of hardware queues/rings from blkfront
  xen/blkback: pseudo support for multi hardware queues/rings
  xen/blkback: separate ring information out of struct xen_blkif
  xen/blkfront: correct setting for xen_blkif_max_ring_order
  xen/blkfront: make persistent grants pool per-queue
  xen/blkfront: Remove duplicate setting of -&gt;xbdev.
  xen/blkfront: Cleanup of comments, fix unaligned variables, and syntax errors.
  xen/blkfront: negotiate number of queues/rings to be used with backend
  xen/blkfront: split per device io_lock
  ...
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Pull block driver updates from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the block driver pull request for 4.5, with the exception of
  NVMe, which is in a separate branch and will be posted after this one.

  This pull request contains:

   - A set of bcache stability fixes, which have been acked by Kent.
     These have been used and tested for more than a year by the
     community, so it's about time that they got in.

   - A set of drbd updates from the drbd team (Andreas, Lars, Philipp)
     and Markus Elfring, Oleg Drokin.

   - A set of fixes for xen blkback/front from the usual suspects, (Bob,
     Konrad) as well as community based fixes from Kiri, Julien, and
     Peng.

   - A 2038 time fix for sx8 from Shraddha, with a fix from me.

   - A small mtip32xx cleanup from Zhu Yanjun.

   - A null_blk division fix from Arnd"

* 'for-4.5/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (71 commits)
  null_blk: use sector_div instead of do_div
  mtip32xx: restrict variables visible in current code module
  xen/blkfront: Fix crash if backend doesn't follow the right states.
  xen/blkback: Fix two memory leaks.
  xen/blkback: make st_ statistics per ring
  xen/blkfront: Handle non-indirect grant with 64KB pages
  xen-blkfront: Introduce blkif_ring_get_request
  xen-blkback: clear PF_NOFREEZE for xen_blkif_schedule()
  xen/blkback: Free resources if connect_ring failed.
  xen/blocks: Return -EXX instead of -1
  xen/blkback: make pool of persistent grants and free pages per-queue
  xen/blkback: get the number of hardware queues/rings from blkfront
  xen/blkback: pseudo support for multi hardware queues/rings
  xen/blkback: separate ring information out of struct xen_blkif
  xen/blkfront: correct setting for xen_blkif_max_ring_order
  xen/blkfront: make persistent grants pool per-queue
  xen/blkfront: Remove duplicate setting of -&gt;xbdev.
  xen/blkfront: Cleanup of comments, fix unaligned variables, and syntax errors.
  xen/blkfront: negotiate number of queues/rings to be used with backend
  xen/blkfront: split per device io_lock
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost</title>
<updated>2016-01-19T00:44:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-19T00:44:24+00:00</published>
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Pull virtio barrier rework+fixes from Michael Tsirkin:
 "This adds a new kind of barrier, and reworks virtio and xen to use it.

  Plus some fixes here and there"

* tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost: (44 commits)
  checkpatch: add virt barriers
  checkpatch: check for __smp outside barrier.h
  checkpatch.pl: add missing memory barriers
  virtio: make find_vqs() checkpatch.pl-friendly
  virtio_balloon: fix race between migration and ballooning
  virtio_balloon: fix race by fill and leak
  s390: more efficient smp barriers
  s390: use generic memory barriers
  xen/events: use virt_xxx barriers
  xen/io: use virt_xxx barriers
  xenbus: use virt_xxx barriers
  virtio_ring: use virt_store_mb
  sh: move xchg_cmpxchg to a header by itself
  sh: support 1 and 2 byte xchg
  virtio_ring: update weak barriers to use virt_xxx
  Revert "virtio_ring: Update weak barriers to use dma_wmb/rmb"
  asm-generic: implement virt_xxx memory barriers
  x86: define __smp_xxx
  xtensa: define __smp_xxx
  tile: define __smp_xxx
  ...
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Pull virtio barrier rework+fixes from Michael Tsirkin:
 "This adds a new kind of barrier, and reworks virtio and xen to use it.

  Plus some fixes here and there"

* tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost: (44 commits)
  checkpatch: add virt barriers
  checkpatch: check for __smp outside barrier.h
  checkpatch.pl: add missing memory barriers
  virtio: make find_vqs() checkpatch.pl-friendly
  virtio_balloon: fix race between migration and ballooning
  virtio_balloon: fix race by fill and leak
  s390: more efficient smp barriers
  s390: use generic memory barriers
  xen/events: use virt_xxx barriers
  xen/io: use virt_xxx barriers
  xenbus: use virt_xxx barriers
  virtio_ring: use virt_store_mb
  sh: move xchg_cmpxchg to a header by itself
  sh: support 1 and 2 byte xchg
  virtio_ring: update weak barriers to use virt_xxx
  Revert "virtio_ring: Update weak barriers to use dma_wmb/rmb"
  asm-generic: implement virt_xxx memory barriers
  x86: define __smp_xxx
  xtensa: define __smp_xxx
  tile: define __smp_xxx
  ...
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<entry>
<title>xen/io: use virt_xxx barriers</title>
<updated>2016-01-12T18:47:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-27T16:02:16+00:00</published>
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include/xen/interface/io/ring.h uses
full memory barriers to communicate with the other side.

For guests compiled with CONFIG_SMP, smp_wmb and smp_mb
would be sufficient, so mb() and wmb() here are only needed if
a non-SMP guest runs on an SMP host.

Switch to virt_xxx barriers which serve this exact purpose.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
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include/xen/interface/io/ring.h uses
full memory barriers to communicate with the other side.

For guests compiled with CONFIG_SMP, smp_wmb and smp_mb
would be sufficient, so mb() and wmb() here are only needed if
a non-SMP guest runs on an SMP host.

Switch to virt_xxx barriers which serve this exact purpose.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>xen/blkif: document blkif multi-queue/ring extension</title>
<updated>2016-01-04T14:56:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bob Liu</name>
<email>bob.liu@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-14T03:12:10+00:00</published>
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Document the multi-queue/ring feature in terms of XenStore keys to be written by
the backend and by the frontend.

Signed-off-by: Bob Liu &lt;bob.liu@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
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Document the multi-queue/ring feature in terms of XenStore keys to be written by
the backend and by the frontend.

Signed-off-by: Bob Liu &lt;bob.liu@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>xen: introduce XENPF_settime64</title>
<updated>2015-12-21T14:40:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Stabellini</name>
<email>stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-23T10:38:12+00:00</published>
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Rename the current XENPF_settime hypercall and related struct to
XENPF_settime32.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini &lt;stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
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Rename the current XENPF_settime hypercall and related struct to
XENPF_settime32.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini &lt;stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>xen: rename dom0_op to platform_op</title>
<updated>2015-12-21T14:40:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Stabellini</name>
<email>stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-23T10:36:12+00:00</published>
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The dom0_op hypercall has been renamed to platform_op since Xen 3.2,
which is ancient, and modern upstream Linux kernels cannot run as dom0
and it anymore anyway.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini &lt;stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
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The dom0_op hypercall has been renamed to platform_op since Xen 3.2,
which is ancient, and modern upstream Linux kernels cannot run as dom0
and it anymore anyway.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini &lt;stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>xen: Add RING_COPY_REQUEST()</title>
<updated>2015-12-18T15:00:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Vrabel</name>
<email>david.vrabel@citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-30T14:58:08+00:00</published>
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Using RING_GET_REQUEST() on a shared ring is easy to use incorrectly
(i.e., by not considering that the other end may alter the data in the
shared ring while it is being inspected).  Safe usage of a request
generally requires taking a local copy.

Provide a RING_COPY_REQUEST() macro to use instead of
RING_GET_REQUEST() and an open-coded memcpy().  This takes care of
ensuring that the copy is done correctly regardless of any possible
compiler optimizations.

Use a volatile source to prevent the compiler from reordering or
omitting the copy.

This is part of XSA155.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
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Using RING_GET_REQUEST() on a shared ring is easy to use incorrectly
(i.e., by not considering that the other end may alter the data in the
shared ring while it is being inspected).  Safe usage of a request
generally requires taking a local copy.

Provide a RING_COPY_REQUEST() macro to use instead of
RING_GET_REQUEST() and an open-coded memcpy().  This takes care of
ensuring that the copy is done correctly regardless of any possible
compiler optimizations.

Use a volatile source to prevent the compiler from reordering or
omitting the copy.

This is part of XSA155.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>x86/xen: Support kexec/kdump in HVM guests by doing a soft reset</title>
<updated>2015-09-28T13:48:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vitaly Kuznetsov</name>
<email>vkuznets@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-25T09:59:52+00:00</published>
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Currently there is a number of issues preventing PVHVM Xen guests from
doing successful kexec/kdump:

  - Bound event channels.
  - Registered vcpu_info.
  - PIRQ/emuirq mappings.
  - shared_info frame after XENMAPSPACE_shared_info operation.
  - Active grant mappings.

Basically, newly booted kernel stumbles upon already set up Xen
interfaces and there is no way to reestablish them. In Xen-4.7 a new
feature called 'soft reset' is coming. A guest performing kexec/kdump
operation is supposed to call SCHEDOP_shutdown hypercall with
SHUTDOWN_soft_reset reason before jumping to new kernel. Hypervisor
(with some help from toolstack) will do full domain cleanup (but
keeping its memory and vCPU contexts intact) returning the guest to
the state it had when it was first booted and thus allowing it to
start over.

Doing SHUTDOWN_soft_reset on Xen hypervisors which don't support it is
probably OK as by default all unknown shutdown reasons cause domain
destroy with a message in toolstack log: 'Unknown shutdown reason code
5. Destroying domain.'  which gives a clue to what the problem is and
eliminates false expectations.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
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Currently there is a number of issues preventing PVHVM Xen guests from
doing successful kexec/kdump:

  - Bound event channels.
  - Registered vcpu_info.
  - PIRQ/emuirq mappings.
  - shared_info frame after XENMAPSPACE_shared_info operation.
  - Active grant mappings.

Basically, newly booted kernel stumbles upon already set up Xen
interfaces and there is no way to reestablish them. In Xen-4.7 a new
feature called 'soft reset' is coming. A guest performing kexec/kdump
operation is supposed to call SCHEDOP_shutdown hypercall with
SHUTDOWN_soft_reset reason before jumping to new kernel. Hypervisor
(with some help from toolstack) will do full domain cleanup (but
keeping its memory and vCPU contexts intact) returning the guest to
the state it had when it was first booted and thus allowing it to
start over.

Doing SHUTDOWN_soft_reset on Xen hypervisors which don't support it is
probably OK as by default all unknown shutdown reasons cause domain
destroy with a message in toolstack log: 'Unknown shutdown reason code
5. Destroying domain.'  which gives a clue to what the problem is and
eliminates false expectations.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov &lt;vkuznets@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus-4.3-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip</title>
<updated>2015-09-08T18:46:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-08T18:46:48+00:00</published>
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Pull xen updates from David Vrabel:
 "Xen features and fixes for 4.3:

   - Convert xen-blkfront to the multiqueue API
   - [arm] Support binding event channels to different VCPUs.
   - [x86] Support &gt; 512 GiB in a PV guests (off by default as such a
     guest cannot be migrated with the current toolstack).
   - [x86] PMU support for PV dom0 (limited support for using perf with
     Xen and other guests)"

* tag 'for-linus-4.3-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: (33 commits)
  xen: switch extra memory accounting to use pfns
  xen: limit memory to architectural maximum
  xen: avoid another early crash of memory limited dom0
  xen: avoid early crash of memory limited dom0
  arm/xen: Remove helpers which are PV specific
  xen/x86: Don't try to set PCE bit in CR4
  xen/PMU: PMU emulation code
  xen/PMU: Intercept PMU-related MSR and APIC accesses
  xen/PMU: Describe vendor-specific PMU registers
  xen/PMU: Initialization code for Xen PMU
  xen/PMU: Sysfs interface for setting Xen PMU mode
  xen: xensyms support
  xen: remove no longer needed p2m.h
  xen: allow more than 512 GB of RAM for 64 bit pv-domains
  xen: move p2m list if conflicting with e820 map
  xen: add explicit memblock_reserve() calls for special pages
  mm: provide early_memremap_ro to establish read-only mapping
  xen: check for initrd conflicting with e820 map
  xen: check pre-allocated page tables for conflict with memory map
  xen: check for kernel memory conflicting with memory layout
  ...
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Pull xen updates from David Vrabel:
 "Xen features and fixes for 4.3:

   - Convert xen-blkfront to the multiqueue API
   - [arm] Support binding event channels to different VCPUs.
   - [x86] Support &gt; 512 GiB in a PV guests (off by default as such a
     guest cannot be migrated with the current toolstack).
   - [x86] PMU support for PV dom0 (limited support for using perf with
     Xen and other guests)"

* tag 'for-linus-4.3-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: (33 commits)
  xen: switch extra memory accounting to use pfns
  xen: limit memory to architectural maximum
  xen: avoid another early crash of memory limited dom0
  xen: avoid early crash of memory limited dom0
  arm/xen: Remove helpers which are PV specific
  xen/x86: Don't try to set PCE bit in CR4
  xen/PMU: PMU emulation code
  xen/PMU: Intercept PMU-related MSR and APIC accesses
  xen/PMU: Describe vendor-specific PMU registers
  xen/PMU: Initialization code for Xen PMU
  xen/PMU: Sysfs interface for setting Xen PMU mode
  xen: xensyms support
  xen: remove no longer needed p2m.h
  xen: allow more than 512 GB of RAM for 64 bit pv-domains
  xen: move p2m list if conflicting with e820 map
  xen: add explicit memblock_reserve() calls for special pages
  mm: provide early_memremap_ro to establish read-only mapping
  xen: check for initrd conflicting with e820 map
  xen: check pre-allocated page tables for conflict with memory map
  xen: check for kernel memory conflicting with memory layout
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>xen-netback: add support for multicast control</title>
<updated>2015-09-02T18:45:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Durrant</name>
<email>Paul.Durrant@citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-02T16:58:36+00:00</published>
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Xen's PV network protocol includes messages to add/remove ethernet
multicast addresses to/from a filter list in the backend. This allows
the frontend to request the backend only forward multicast packets
which are of interest thus preventing unnecessary noise on the shared
ring.

The canonical netif header in git://xenbits.xen.org/xen.git specifies
the message format (two more XEN_NETIF_EXTRA_TYPEs) so the minimal
necessary changes have been pulled into include/xen/interface/io/netif.h.

To prevent the frontend from extending the multicast filter list
arbitrarily a limit (XEN_NETBK_MCAST_MAX) has been set to 64 entries.
This limit is not specified by the protocol and so may change in future.
If the limit is reached then the next XEN_NETIF_EXTRA_TYPE_MCAST_ADD
sent by the frontend will be failed with NETIF_RSP_ERROR.

Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant &lt;paul.durrant@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Ian Campbell &lt;ian.campbell@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu2@citrix.com&gt;
Acked-by: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu2@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Xen's PV network protocol includes messages to add/remove ethernet
multicast addresses to/from a filter list in the backend. This allows
the frontend to request the backend only forward multicast packets
which are of interest thus preventing unnecessary noise on the shared
ring.

The canonical netif header in git://xenbits.xen.org/xen.git specifies
the message format (two more XEN_NETIF_EXTRA_TYPEs) so the minimal
necessary changes have been pulled into include/xen/interface/io/netif.h.

To prevent the frontend from extending the multicast filter list
arbitrarily a limit (XEN_NETBK_MCAST_MAX) has been set to 64 entries.
This limit is not specified by the protocol and so may change in future.
If the limit is reached then the next XEN_NETIF_EXTRA_TYPE_MCAST_ADD
sent by the frontend will be failed with NETIF_RSP_ERROR.

Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant &lt;paul.durrant@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Ian Campbell &lt;ian.campbell@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu2@citrix.com&gt;
Acked-by: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu2@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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