From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: VMX: Update instruction length on intercepted BP
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:13:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B7BCF59.40402@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100217104304.GP2995@redhat.com>
On 02/17/2010 12:43 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
>> And, again: This is an _existing_ user space ABI. We could only provide
>> an alternative, but we have to maintain what is there at least for some
>> longer grace period.
>>
>>
> But it was always broken for SVM and was broken for VMX for a year and
> nobody noticed, so may be instead of reintroducing old interface we should
> do it right this time?
>
We need to fix the existing interface first, and then think long and
hard if we want yet another interface, since we're likely to screw it up
as well.
The more interfaces we introduce, the harder maintenance becomes.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-17 11:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-15 14:53 [PATCH v2] KVM: VMX: Update instruction length on intercepted BP Jan Kiszka
2010-02-16 7:33 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-02-16 8:05 ` Jan Kiszka
2010-02-16 8:24 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-02-16 9:11 ` Jan Kiszka
2010-02-17 10:43 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-02-17 11:13 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-02-17 11:16 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-02-17 11:23 ` Jan Kiszka
2010-02-17 13:12 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-02-17 19:17 ` Jan Kiszka
2010-02-18 7:35 ` Gleb Natapov
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