Re: [GIT PULL] KVM updates for the 2.6.38 merge window

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 1:21 AM, Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> - asynchronous page faults, which allow a guest to continue processing
> interrupts even when its memory is being paged in; in the case of a Linux
> 2.6.38+ guest, it will receive a notification that the host is servicing a
> page fault, and may switch into another guest process

So quite frankly, I don't like how this was done.

When you touch files like mm/memory.c, you don't just touch them. You
get sign-offs and acks from the VM maintainers. Seriously.

In this case, I pulled, looked, and then unpulled. I just don't want
it, and I think the new FAULT_FLAG_MINOR is seriously mis-named and
hacky.

Is it about atomicity? Is it about IO? Why wasn't I notified
before-hand? Was Andrew cc'd?

Not pulled.

                     Linus
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