linux-kernel - Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 02/33] KVM: MMU: emulated cmpxchg8b should be atomic on i386

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Date:	Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:24:30 +0200
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>
To:	Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <carenas@...inet.com.pe>
CC:	kvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@...ck.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 02/33] KVM: MMU: emulated cmpxchg8b should
 be atomic on i386

Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 04:39:08PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>   
>> From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@...ck.org>
>>
>> Emulate cmpxchg8b atomically on i386. This is required to avoid a guest
>> pte walker from seeing a splitted write.
>>
>> [avi: make it compile]
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>
>> ---
>>     
>
> This one doesn't look like the one in the current tree, and avoids the reuse
> of addr by moving the call to get the gpa up instead of renaming the variable
> as propossed in :
>
>   

This is a cumulative patch that is the original patch plus all the fixes 
rolled in.  I'd to avoid churn for style issues at this point, maybe we 
can address it later.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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