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From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/7 v2] kvm: improve handling of overlapping
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To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Jan Kiszka wrote:
> This reworks the slot management to handle all patterns of
> cpu_register_physical_memory*, finally allowing to reset KVM guests (so
> far address remapping on reset broke the slot management).
>
> Nevertheless, KVM kernel bug in older versions forces us to track
> previousfragmentations and maintain them (as that bug prevents
> registering larger slots that overlap also deleted ones). When affected
> KVM versions are detected, we apply a workaround that covers all
> currently used patterns.
>
> Changes in v2:
>  - detect KVM kernel bug and apply the workaround only when needed
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
>   

Please resubmit this as a patch against v1.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori