Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 Oct 2007 14:07:00 +0200 | From | Avi Kivity <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/11] KVM updates for Linux 2.6.24-rc review |
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Laurent Vivier wrote: > Avi Kivity a écrit : >> Avi Kivity wrote: >>> The following patches fix fallout from the main 2.6.24 KVM merge. An >>> exception is the movnti emulation patch, which adds support for Linux >>> 2.6.16 guests. >>> >>> The patches can be found in kvm.git in the branch kvm-updates-2.6.24. >>> There is also a branch kvm-updates-2.6.25 which will form the basis of >>> the next merge window submission. >>> >>> Please review the patches and let me know if something is wrong or if >>> a patch is missing. >>> >>> >> >> >> Laurent, I believe the following patch (in kvm-updates-2.6.25) needs >> to go into 2.6.24 as well. Can you comment on this? > > What kind of comment do you want ?
Well, whether it needs to go into .24.
> What are the requirements to go in 2.6.24 instead of 2.6.25 ? > > Is a bug correction enough ? :-P >
It has to fix something real-life, in a real guest.
> This patch correct a bad behavior of x86_emulate_insn() in case of > error with a REP prefix. > > This patch is needed because, without it, when REP prefix is used with > an instruction failing for some reasons (like IO or page fault) we > don't restore all modified registers (like RSI and RDI), but only ECX > and EIP, so when we re-enter in x86_emulate_insn() we modify again an > already modified value. Moreover, this patch manages correctly the > case where the instruction fails in writeback(). >
Okay, I guess it is needed. Can you backport it to the branch? It's very different from kvm-updates-2.6.24...
-- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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