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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: remove vm mmap method
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 17:15:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <527919AE.7050307@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131105161211.GF31020@redhat.com>

Il 05/11/2013 17:12, Gleb Natapov ha scritto:
> > I think it is usable (perhaps not useful...) on its own, though.  It is
> > just 40 lines of self-contained code, keeping it doesn't do any harm.
>
> Usable for what?

Usable, not useful.  Perhaps someone prefers to map the guest address
space instead of using the memory areas they registrated.

> So this is just 40 lines of dead code, but it is not only dead it is
> outdated. The code around it evolved and nobody adjusted it. The
> code will fail to access memory in read only slot for instance (there
> was no read only slots back then).

You're right it's broken for RO slots.  Go ahead and zap it. :)

Paolo

      reply	other threads:[~2013-11-05 16:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-05 14:04 [PATCH] KVM: remove vm mmap method Gleb Natapov
2013-11-05 14:16 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-11-05 16:12   ` Gleb Natapov
2013-11-05 16:15     ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]

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