From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 0/3] 128-bit support for the memory API
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:43:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EAFB13C.5090104@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111101005401.GC6895@truffala.fritz.box>
On 11/01/2011 02:54 AM, David Gibson wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:05:47AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > On 10/30/2011 09:02 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > >This somewhat controversial patchset converts internal arithmetic in the
> > >memory API to 128 bits.
> >
> > Given the level of controversy, what do you think about deferring
> > this to 1.1?
>
> If it's deferred then one of my rearrangements for the arithmetic must
> go in instead. These patches fix real bugs, that bite us on pseries.
> It's not the only way to fix those bugs, and probably not even my
> personally preferred way to fix them, but they need to be fixed
> _somehow_ for 1.0.
Yes, plus if one of them is exploitable, then it's certainly a must for 1.0.
--
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-01 8:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-30 14:02 [Qemu-devel] [PULL 0/3] 128-bit support for the memory API Avi Kivity
2011-10-30 14:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] Add support for 128-bit arithmetic Avi Kivity
2011-10-30 14:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] memory: use 128-bit integers for sizes and intermediates Avi Kivity
2011-10-30 14:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] Adjust system and pci address spaces to full 64-bit Avi Kivity
2011-10-30 14:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 0/3] 128-bit support for the memory API Anthony Liguori
2011-10-30 14:19 ` Avi Kivity
2011-10-30 14:59 ` Blue Swirl
2011-10-30 15:10 ` Avi Kivity
2011-10-31 0:36 ` David Gibson
2011-10-31 10:27 ` Avi Kivity
2011-10-31 16:05 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-01 0:54 ` David Gibson
2011-11-01 8:43 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2011-11-01 12:59 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-01 13:48 ` Andreas Färber
2011-11-02 10:17 ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-01 18:08 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-02 10:10 ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-03 13:09 ` Anthony Liguori
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