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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] kvm tools: fix repeated io emulation
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On 08/18/2011 11:08 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 08/18/2011 12:35 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 09:13 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>> >  Hi,
>> >
>> >  On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 6:06 AM, Xiao Guangrong
>> >  <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>  wrote:
>> >  >  When kvm emulates repeation io read instruction, it can exit to user-space with
>> >  >  'count'>  1, we need to emulate io access for many times
>> >  >
>> >  >  Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong<xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
>> >
>> >  The KVM tool is not actually maintained by Avi and Marcelo but by me
>> >  and few others. Our git repository is here:
>> >
>> >  https://github.com/penberg/linux-kvm
>> >
>> >  Ingo pulls that to -tip few times a week or so. Sasha, can you please
>> >  take a look at these patches and if you're OK with them, I'll apply
>> >  them.
>>
>> Pekka,
>>
>> I can only assume they're right, 'count' isn't documented anywhere :)
>>
>> If any of KVM maintainers could confirm it I'll add it into the docs.
>>
> 
> Count is indeed the number of repetitions.
> 

Hi Pekka,

Could you pick up this patchset please?