linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] always assign userspace

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Date:	Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:53:32 -0200
From:	Glauber Costa <glommer@...hat.com>
To:	Anthony Liguori <anthony@...emonkey.ws>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org, avi@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] always assign userspace_addr

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:51:00PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
> But the problem still exists even with this code.  I checked.
>
> So if you have something working without modifying the kernel, can you  
> post it?
>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori

Ok, how do you feel about this one?

My proposal is to always delete a memslot before reusing the space,
but controlling this behaviour by a flag, so we can maintain backwards
compatibility with people using older versions of the interface.



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