Re: KVM: Warn if mark_page_dirty() is called without an active vCPU

To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: KVM: Warn if mark_page_dirty() is called without an active vCPU
From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 15:36:16 +0100
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On 1/13/22 13:30, David Woodhouse wrote:

Are you proposing that as an officially documented part of the already
horrid API, or a temporary measure:)


Hopefully temporary, but honestly you never know how these things go.

Paolo

References:
- Re: KVM: Warn if mark_page_dirty() is called without an active vCPU
  - From: Christian Borntraeger
- Re: KVM: Warn if mark_page_dirty() is called without an active vCPU
  - From: Paolo Bonzini
- Re: KVM: Warn if mark_page_dirty() is called without an active vCPU
  - From: David Woodhouse