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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:59:47 -0600
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] always assign userspace_addr
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Glauber Costa wrote:
> 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.
>   

Is the old behavior ever correct?  I think it's always wrong.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori


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