linux-aws: 4.4.0-1040.49 -proposed tracker

[Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo]

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boot-testing-requested: true
kernel-stable-master-bug: 1731264
phase: Promoted to proposed
proposed-announcement-sent: true
proposed-testing-requested: true

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux-aws - 4.4.0-1041.50

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linux-aws (4.4.0-1041.50) xenial; urgency=low

  * linux-aws: 4.4.0-1041.50 -proposed tracker (LP: #1732535)

  * xen hibernation support for linux-aws (LP: #1732512)
    - aws: [Config] disable SUSPEND
    - aws: [Config] disable XEN_FBDEV_FRONTEND, INPUT_XEN_KBDDEV_FRONTEND
    - xen: move xen_setup_runstate_info and get_runstate_snapshot to
      drivers/xen/time.c
    - xen/time: use READ_ONCE
    - xen: add steal_clock support on x86
    - xen: support runqueue steal time on xen
    - xen: introduce xen_vcpu_id mapping
    - x86/xen: use xen_vcpu_id mapping for HYPERVISOR_vcpu_op
    - xen: add static initialization of steal_clock op to xen_time_ops
    - x86/xen: update cpuid.h from Xen-4.7
    - x86/acpi: store ACPI ids from MADT for future usage
    - xen: update xen headers
    - xen: change the type of xen_vcpu_id to uint32_t
    - xen/blkfront: separate per ring information out of device info
    - xen/blkfront: pseudo support for multi hardware queues/rings
    - xen/blkfront: split per device io_lock
    - xen/blkfront: negotiate number of queues/rings to be used with backend
    - xen/blkfront: Cleanup of comments, fix unaligned variables, and syntax
      errors.
    - xen/blkfront: Remove duplicate setting of ->xbdev.
    - xen/blkfront: make persistent grants pool per-queue
    - xen/blkfront: correct setting for xen_blkif_max_ring_order
    - xen/blkfront: realloc ring info in blkif_resume
    - blk-mq: dynamic h/w context count
    - xen-blkfront: save uncompleted reqs in blkfront_resume()
    - xen-blkfront: fix places not updated after introducing 64KB page granularity
    - blk-mq: mark request queue as mq asap
    - blk-mq: Fix NULL pointer updating nr_requests
    - xen-blkfront: fix resume issues after a migration
    - xen-blkfront: introduce blkif_set_queue_limits()
    - xen/pvhvm: run xen_vcpu_setup() for the boot CPU
    - SAUCE: [aws] xen/manage: keep track of the on-going suspend mode
    - SAUCE: [aws] xen/manage: introduce helper function to know the on-going
      suspend mode
    - SAUCE: [aws] xenbus: add freeze/thaw/restore callbacks support
    - SAUCE: [aws] x86/xen: decouple shared_info mapping from
      xen_hvm_init_shared_info()
    - SAUCE: [aws] x86/xen: add system core suspend and resume callbacks
    - SAUCE: [aws] xen/time: introduce xen_{save,restore}_steal_clock
    - SAUCE: [aws] x86/xen: save and restore steal clock
    - SAUCE: [aws] xen/events: add xen_shutdown_pirqs helper function
    - SAUCE: [aws] x86/xen: close event channels for PIRQs in system core suspend
      callback
    - SAUCE: [aws] xen-netfront: add callbacks for PM suspend and hibernation
      support
    - SAUCE: [aws] xen-blkfront: add callbacks for PM suspend and hibernation
      support
    - SAUCE: [aws] x86/xen: handle CPU_UP_PREPARE_FROZEN for PM
      suspend/hibernation
    - SAUCE: [aws] xen-netfront: add longer default freeze timeout as a module
      parameter
    - SAUCE: [aws] PM / hibernate: update the resume offset on
      SNAPSHOT_SET_SWAP_AREA

  * Switch Vcs-Git: url to fully expanded form (LP: #1730648)
    - [Config] Change...