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From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: IOAPIC: only access APIC registers one dword
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Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 09:23:57 +0300
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On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 11:47:06AM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> > There might be guests that use incorrect access despite the
> > documentation; if real hardware supports it, it should work.  So we need
> > to start with just a warning, and allow the access.  Later we can drop
> > the invalid access.
> 
> If the OS contravene the spec, i thinks it's the OS's bug, also, i have tested some versions
> windows/linux guests, it's no broken, can we directly drop the other wide access?
> 
If reality contradicts spec we should emulate reality. I vaguely
remember some guest using memcpy on apic page for instance.

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