From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: paulus@samba.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/kvm: Handle the boundary condition correctly
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 15:54:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vc1odi10.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k3j8ejjq.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Hi Alex,
"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>>>> Ok, please give me an example with real numbers and why it breaks.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://mid.gmane.org/1376995766-16526-4-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
>>>>>
>>>
>>> Didn't quiet get what you are looking for. As explained before, we now
>>> need to pass an array with array size 3 even though we know we need to
>>> read only 2 entries because kernel doesn't loop correctly.
>>
>> But we need to do that regardless, because newer QEMU needs to be able to run on older kernels, no?
>>
>
> yes. So use space will have to pass an array of size 3. But that should
> not prevent us from fixing this right ?
>
Do we still want this patch or should I drop this ?
-aneesh
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From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: paulus@samba.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/kvm: Handle the boundary condition correctly
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 21:12:51 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vc1odi10.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k3j8ejjq.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Hi Alex,
"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>>>> Ok, please give me an example with real numbers and why it breaks.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://mid.gmane.org/1376995766-16526-4-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
>>>>>
>>>
>>> Didn't quiet get what you are looking for. As explained before, we now
>>> need to pass an array with array size 3 even though we know we need to
>>> read only 2 entries because kernel doesn't loop correctly.
>>
>> But we need to do that regardless, because newer QEMU needs to be able to run on older kernels, no?
>>
>
> yes. So use space will have to pass an array of size 3. But that should
> not prevent us from fixing this right ?
>
Do we still want this patch or should I drop this ?
-aneesh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-25 15:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-22 11:37 [PATCH] powerpc/kvm: Handle the boundary condition correctly Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-08-22 11:49 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-08-22 16:48 ` Alexander Graf
2013-08-22 16:48 ` Alexander Graf
2013-08-23 3:31 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-08-23 3:43 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-08-23 4:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-08-23 4:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-08-25 18:09 ` Alexander Graf
2013-08-25 18:09 ` Alexander Graf
2013-08-25 18:16 ` Alexander Graf
2013-08-25 18:16 ` Alexander Graf
2013-08-26 3:28 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-08-26 3:40 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-08-26 11:10 ` Alexander Graf
2013-08-26 11:10 ` Alexander Graf
2013-08-26 12:14 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-08-26 12:26 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-09-25 15:42 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
2013-09-25 15:54 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-09-25 15:51 ` Alexander Graf
2013-09-25 15:51 ` Alexander Graf
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2013-08-11 18:20 Aneesh Kumar K.V
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