Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 0/3] 128-bit support for the memory API

[Avi Kivity]

On 11/01/2011 02:54 AM, David Gibson wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:05:47AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > On 10/30/2011 09:02 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > >This somewhat controversial patchset converts internal arithmetic in the
> > >memory API to 128 bits.
> > 
> > Given the level of controversy, what do you think about deferring
> > this to 1.1?
>
> If it's deferred then one of my rearrangements for the arithmetic must
> go in instead.  These patches fix real bugs, that bite us on pseries.
> It's not the only way to fix those bugs, and probably not even my
> personally preferred way to fix them, but they need to be fixed
> _somehow_ for 1.0.

Yes, plus if one of them is exploitable, then it's certainly a must for 1.0.

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