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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	marcel.a@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] BUG: QEMU aborts when setting breakpoint in gdb (bisected)
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 22:13:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <527AB0EC.8080200@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131106183912.GA16747@redhat.com>

Il 06/11/2013 19:39, Michael S. Tsirkin ha scritto:
> Because this will affect performance in unpredicatable way.

It's not really unpredictable.  It can be easily unit-tested, and anyway
the targets with 64-bit address spaces don't have any particular
performance problem.

> We can't make such changes in 1.7 IMHO:
> it would need much more than just a quick "works for me".

I can say the same about phys_page_find.  It's been obviously broken for
years and nobody ever cared, it cannot be super-urgent now to fix it.

Paolo

>> >  I don't feel confident
>> > changing phys_page_find, even if it's just 2 lines.
>> > 
>> > Paolo
> Well it's *obviously* broken if address is outside target address
> space.
> Take a look at the patch first, then argue.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-06 21:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-06 16:22 [Qemu-devel] BUG: QEMU aborts when setting breakpoint in gdb (bisected) Luiz Capitulino
2013-11-06 16:26 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-11-06 16:29   ` Luiz Capitulino
2013-11-06 16:33   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-11-06 16:30     ` Marcel Apfelbaum
2013-11-06 17:39 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-11-06 17:48   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-11-06 17:50     ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-11-06 18:39       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-11-06 21:13         ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-11-06 21:36           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-11-06 18:36   ` Luiz Capitulino
2013-11-06 21:11     ` Paolo Bonzini

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