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Message-ID: <4B570EDD.6000808@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:10:37 +0200
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
CC:	mtosatti@...hat.com, Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] kvm: fix spurious interrupt with irqfd

On 01/19/2010 04:52 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 02:42:50PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>    
>> On 01/13/2010 07:12 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>      
>>> Deassigning irqfd and assigning back caused spurious interrupt. fix this
>>> by clearing the counter on deassign.  This is on top of davidel's patch
>>> which makes clearing eventfd counter from modules possible.
>>>
>>>        
>> Applied both, thanks.
>>      
> Hmm, I see this in kvm master.  Avi/Marcelo, since this is a bugfix, can
> you queue this patchset for 2.6.33 and 2.6.32 stable as well please?
>    

I'm uncomfortable with pushing Davide's patch into stable and possibly 
causing regressions with unrelated applications.  Can't a guest live 
with a spurious interrupt?  It's not like they're unknown.

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

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