From: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: alias rework
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:29:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100126162931.3ab65d00@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B5EF8D7.7020806@redhat.com>
On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:14:47 +0200
Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 01/25/2010 10:40 PM, Izik Eidus wrote:
> >
> >> Or is this a feature you need?
> >>
> >
> > I dont need it (I asked Avi to do something), So he said he want to nuke the aliasing
> > from kvm and keep supporting the old userspace`s
> >
> > Do you have any other way to achive this?
> >
> > Btw I do realize it might be better not to push this patch and just keep the old
> > way of treating aliasing as we have now, I really don`t mind.
> >
>
> How about implementing an alias pointing at a deleted slot as an invalid
> slot?
>
> If the slot comes back later, we can revalidate it.
>
Ok, didn`t notice this invalid memslot flag,
I will add this, I will still leave the update_aliased_memslot()
in order to update the userspace virtual address...
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-26 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-25 13:53 [PATCH] RFC: alias rework Izik Eidus
2010-01-25 19:45 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-01-25 19:57 ` Izik Eidus
2010-01-25 20:20 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-01-25 20:40 ` Izik Eidus
2010-01-25 20:49 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-01-25 21:51 ` Izik Eidus
2010-01-26 14:14 ` Avi Kivity
2010-01-26 14:29 ` Izik Eidus [this message]
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