From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: KVM Test result, kernel ff5bdac.., userspace eb2fd67.. -- One New Issue Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:21:02 +0300 Message-ID: <485122BE.6090303@qumranet.com> References: <4848AAD0.1070108@intel.com> <20080609212310.GA6324@dmt.cnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Yunfeng Zhao , john cooper , Chris Wright , kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Marcelo Tosatti Return-path: Received: from il.qumranet.com ([212.179.150.194]:49486 "EHLO il.qumranet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759399AbYFLNXK (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:23:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080609212310.GA6324@dmt.cnet> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > Perhaps kvm-userspace should check for kernel version and disable > hugetlb backed memory. Nasty. > > That means if a distro fixed this bug, then it would still suffer. I don't think we can test for this? Otherwise I see no choice but a version check. -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.