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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Work around supported cpuid ioctl() brokenness
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 01:48:26 +0300
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Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID has been known to fail to return -E2BIG
> when it runs out of entries. Detect this by always trying again
> with a bigger table if the ioctl() fills the table.
>   

Applied, thanks.

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