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. -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.