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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm: Fix overlapping check for memory slots
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:32:48 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49E306C0.1050505@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49E06754.8050906@web.de>

Jan Kiszka wrote:
> This nice little buglet complicates a smarter slot management in qemu
> user space just "slightly". Sigh...
>
> -------->
>
> When checking for overlapping slots on registration of a new one, kvm
> currently also considers zero-length (ie. deleted) slots and rejects
> requests incorrectly. This finally denies user space from joining slots.
> Fix the check by skipping deleted slots.
>   

Can userspace fail gracefully when the bug is present?  If not, the you 
should add a KVM_CAP_ to advertise the fix; without the capability don't 
attempt the smarter slot management.


-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-13  9:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-11  9:48 [PATCH] kvm: Fix overlapping check for memory slots Jan Kiszka
2009-04-13  5:47 ` Sheng Yang
2009-04-13  8:50   ` Jan Kiszka
2009-04-13  8:53     ` Sheng Yang
2009-04-13  9:03       ` Jan Kiszka
2009-04-13  9:32 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-04-13  9:42   ` Jan Kiszka
2009-04-13  9:49     ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-13  9:59 ` [PATCH v2] " Jan Kiszka
2009-04-13 13:04   ` Avi Kivity

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