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From: Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo-Bw31MaZKKs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org>,
	kvm-devel
	<kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: add KVM_SYNC_SHADOW_WITH_USER ioctl (v2)
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 22:57:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <478929CE.9070903@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47892303.6030602-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>

Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>>   
>>
>> With mmu notifiers (posted two minutes after this) shadow is 
>> implicitly synced with userspace.  Since it seems to be progressing 
>> rapidly, I won't apply this patch in the hope that mmu notifiers can 
>> be ready for 2.6.25.
>
> Does that mean that we'll only support ballooning on host kernels > 
> 2.6.25 are you going to do judo with debug registers to implement it 
> for older kernels?

Good question.  We may choose not to support it (distros may backport it 
if they wish), or do some evil hackery, or apply 
KVM_SYNC_SHADOW_WITH_USER _only_ to the external module.

-- 
Any sufficiently difficult bug is indistinguishable from a feature.


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-12 20:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-09 18:17 [PATCH] KVM: add KVM_SYNC_SHADOW_WITH_USER ioctl (v2) Marcelo Tosatti
2008-01-12 19:59 ` Avi Kivity
     [not found]   ` <47891C10.8060803-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2008-01-12 20:28     ` Anthony Liguori
     [not found]       ` <47892303.6030602-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-01-12 20:57         ` Avi Kivity [this message]

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