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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/9] valgrind/i386/s390x: memcheck false
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

Am 30.10.2014 10:46, schrieb Peter Maydell:
> On 30 October 2014 09:36, Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> wrote:
>> This series avoids most memcheck false positives in KVM ioctls on s390x
>> and x86_64.
>>
>> Please review and consider for 2.2 or later. Some of these things could
>> also be fixed in valgrind, but it will take a while until these changes
>> hit a release or distros.
> 
> Are you planning to submit the valgrind fixes as well? These definitely
> seem like valgrind bugs that we're having to work around here (though
> the workarounds are pretty simple so they're not a huge deal).

Yes, I will try to get some of this fixed in valgrind as well. This will take a little longer though because the code changes are bigger than just 1 line of code. Given that valgrind has around 1 release/year, this patch set is certainly
a nice band-aid that is useful for todays development.

Christian