From: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <carenas-kLeDWSohozoJb6fo7hG9ng@public.gmane.org>
To: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Cc: mtosatti-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MMU: fix cmpxchg8b emulation on i386 to use the right address
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 01:42:04 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080104074204.GA9968@tapir> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080104065749.GA9285@tapir>
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 12:57:49AM -0600, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon wrote:
> change the function parameter to use vaddr instead of addr to avoid a
> variable name redefinition from 9a5ee611ca79bec98e9d97e93f11df8083b8af6e
this implementation has been already patched 6 times (not including this one)
since it was originally introduced in Dec 12, including compilation and logic
fixes as can be seen by :
24a673eb377069509e8dad5ff7fa146e363df739
eb9270cee7061e5a985eb9eac559270292b1d7ec
a5e8e8a4f7ddb211d856eb30e93e70af9d51b735
d5855a0ec163afd591f272e13e1f2c366794306f
9bfdd08f0a65e67d0842ca35516669bec523fbe0
91051a4955255317cab0d09d8849ec12db85f924
it was meant to fix some sort of bug on i386 because it wasn't atomic but
with so many changes I am not sure if what it was meant to do has been really
preserved, so I think it would be better if anyone with more experience and a
better understanding of this patch could sheed some light on this.
Carlo
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2008-01-04 6:57 [PATCH] MMU: fix cmpxchg8b emulation on i386 to use the right address Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
2008-01-04 7:42 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon [this message]
2008-01-04 12:09 ` Marcelo Tosatti
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