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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 0/3] 128-bit support for the memory API
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On 11/01/2011 03:43 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 11/01/2011 02:54 AM, David Gibson wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:05:47AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> On 10/30/2011 09:02 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>>> This somewhat controversial patchset converts internal arithmetic in the
>>>> memory API to 128 bits.
>>>
>>> Given the level of controversy, what do you think about deferring
>>> this to 1.1?
>>
>> If it's deferred then one of my rearrangements for the arithmetic must
>> go in instead.  These patches fix real bugs, that bite us on pseries.
>> It's not the only way to fix those bugs, and probably not even my
>> personally preferred way to fix them, but they need to be fixed
>> _somehow_ for 1.0.
>
> Yes, plus if one of them is exploitable, then it's certainly a must for 1.0.

Since it's just internal, I'll just pull this series and if we want to change it 
post 1.0, we can.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori