From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:37915) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RL9wh-0002VR-L5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:43:51 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RL9wg-00042F-Jb for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:43:47 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:1025) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RL9wg-00040q-CH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:43:46 -0400 Message-ID: <4EAFB13C.5090104@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:43:40 +0200 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1319983368-21801-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> <4EAEC75B.6020006@codemonkey.ws> <20111101005401.GC6895@truffala.fritz.box> In-Reply-To: <20111101005401.GC6895@truffala.fritz.box> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 0/3] 128-bit support for the memory API List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori , Blue Swirl , qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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.