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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/39] vga: convert vga and its derivatives
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Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:06:00 +0300
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On 07/31/2011 09:48 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >
> >  I haven't.  How does "unconditionally dirty the remapped slot" sound?
> >
> >  I think it isn't introduced by this patchset, yes?
>
> The patch removes the explicit sync from the cirrus code. But the
> underlying issue is older of course.
>

Ah.  So I'll detect that condition in memory.c; we get that bug fixed 
for all potential callers.  I'll leave the race condition until later, 
since it wasn't introduced by this patchset.

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