On 25.09.2013, at 17:42, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > > Hi Alex, > > "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>>>> Ok, please give me an example with real numbers and why it breaks. >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> http://mid.gmane.org/1376995766-16526-4-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>>>> >>>> >>>> Didn't quiet get what you are looking for. As explained before, we now >>>> need to pass an array with array size 3 even though we know we need to >>>> read only 2 entries because kernel doesn't loop correctly. >>> >>> But we need to do that regardless, because newer QEMU needs to be able to run on older kernels, no? >>> >> >> yes. So use space will have to pass an array of size 3. But that should >> not prevent us from fixing this right ? >> > > Do we still want this patch or should I drop this ? If we really want it we need to be able to tell user space that we support this feature through a CAP, so that it can act accordingly. Given the additional complexity of this and the fact that we do want to support older KVM versions regardless, I don't think it's worth the hassle. Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm-ppc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
