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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 04/10] KVM: split kvm_arch_set_memory_region into prepare
 and commit
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:40:56 +0300
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On 09/22/2009 02:37 AM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Required for SRCU convertion later.
>
>    

My feeling is that prepare/commit can be common code and only some small 
bits (like allocating x86 rmaps) can be arch specific.  That's for 
another patchset though.

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