Re: [PATCH] QEMU support for virtio balloon driver

[Rusty Russell <rusty-8n+1lVoiYb80n/F98K4Iww@public.gmane.org>]

On Saturday 26 January 2008 03:08:57 Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 04:29:51PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > I'm inclined to think that we should have a capability check for MM
> > notifiers and just not do madvise if they aren't present.  I don't think
> > the ioctl approach that Marcelo took is sufficient as a malicious guest
> > could possibly hose the host.
>
> How's that? The ioctl damage is contained to the guest (other than CPU
> processing time, which the guest can cause in other ways).
>
> Anyway, don't see the need for back compat with older hosts.
>
> > Having the guest allocate and not touch memory means that it should

[Cut last 523 lines of email, all of which was quoting]

Look, I realize that Anthony is unable to control his massive quoting 
diarrhea, but I expect better from you Marcelo.  It wastes everyone elses' 
time scanning it for new content, and this habit seems to be spreading.

If this keeps up, I'll have no choice but to start sending spams with such a 
massive quote ratio just so everyone's filters start dropping them...

Rusty.

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