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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
To: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Cc: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: VMSTATE_U64 vs. VMSTATE_UINT64
Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 20:24:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DC199CB.30001@siemens.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1304532978.4737.32.camel@mothafucka.localdomain>

On 2011-05-04 20:16, Glauber Costa wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 20:04 +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> can anyone comment on commit e4d6d49061 ("introduce VMSTATE_U64") in
>> qemu-kvm again? I strongly suspect this thing was only introduced to be
>> able to grab from a __u64 (for kvmclock) without generating a compiler
>> warning that you may got when using uint64_t, right?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jan
>>
> I don't remember if it was kvmclock. IIRC, it was my irqchip
> implementation at the time. But I do remember the reason: it was indeed
> to be able to grab kernel data structures directly without a compile
> warning.
> 

Perfect. Then I will also include a revert/drop patch in my series that
switches the only user, kvmclock, to the upstream version.

Jan

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-04 18:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-04 18:04 VMSTATE_U64 vs. VMSTATE_UINT64 Jan Kiszka
2011-05-04 18:16 ` Glauber Costa
2011-05-04 18:24   ` Jan Kiszka [this message]
2011-05-04 18:32     ` Trouble activating windows xp when booted with KVM Salame, Majid (Majid)
2011-05-04 19:44     ` VMSTATE_U64 vs. VMSTATE_UINT64 Glauber Costa
2011-05-09 13:04 ` Juan Quintela

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