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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: x86: keep eoi exit bitmap accurate before loading
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Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 13:00:56 +0200
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Il 28/08/2014 12:14, Wang, Wei W ha scritto:
> We will do some more tests on it to make sure there are no problems.

No, I don't think there are any easily-detected practical problems with
the patch.  But I'm not sure I understand all the theoretical problems
and whether possible races are benign.  These would be really hard to
debug, unless you get a bug that is 100% reproducible.

Paolo