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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: Extend KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS with selective updates
Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:05:22 +0200
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On 12/06/2009 06:55 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> User space may not want to overwrite asynchronously changing VCPU event
> states on write-back. So allow to skip nmi.pending and sipi_vector by
> setting corresponding bits in the flags field of kvm_vcpu_events.
>    

I think a positive flag (do update nmi and sipi_vector) will cause less 
confusion, no?  If we do that, we'll need to set them on 
KVM_GET_VCPU_EVENTS.

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