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Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/mm: Invalidate partition table cache on host
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On Fri, 2017-08-04 at 11:02 +1000, Suraj Jitindar Singh wrote:
> 
> I guess there's the possibility of:
> [x] randomly crash
> 
> This is required to run a powernv kernel as a guest because we need to
> know when it's updated its process table location.

You mean in qemu full emu ? powernv kernels don't run as guest do they
?

Cheers,
Ben.