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From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] kvm: Fix error detection for KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:42:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A676B98.1060104@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A676B27.10100@web.de>

Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> That makes me uncomfortable.  Shouldn't we make kvm return something
>> that's exposed to userspace?
>>
>>     
>
> Yes, but we can't do this from user space :) (or in other words: there
> are already kernels out there which return this invalid code).
>   

But since it's not symbolic, at some point in time the meaning of 524 
can potentially change and introduce a very, very subtle bug.

> The situation would only be different if Alex said that it takes further
> kernel patches anyway to make his PowerPC targets work. Dunno.
>   

Certainly, his PPC target is not in any released kernel version so 
there's time to fix things properly.

> Jan
>
>   


-- 
Regards,

Anthony Liguori

  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-22 19:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200907221626.n6MGQGH0022104@d03av02.boulder.ibm.com>
2009-07-22 17:00 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [COMMIT bd83677] Fake dirty loggin when it's not there Jan Kiszka
2009-07-22 18:15   ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-22 19:27     ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm: Fix error detection for KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG Jan Kiszka
2009-07-22 19:29       ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2009-07-22 19:40         ` Jan Kiszka
2009-07-22 19:42           ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2009-07-22 20:07             ` Jan Kiszka
2009-07-22 21:01               ` Alexander Graf
2009-07-22 21:14                 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-07-22 21:17                   ` Alexander Graf
2009-07-22 21:15                 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-22 21:24                   ` Alexander Graf
2009-07-22 21:25                     ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-22 21:36                       ` Alexander Graf
2009-07-22 21:38                         ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-22 21:30                     ` Jan Kiszka

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