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Re: [PULL 1/1] machine: Disallow specifying topology parameters as zero
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Peter Maydell |
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Re: [PULL 1/1] machine: Disallow specifying topology parameters as zero |
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Tue, 17 Aug 2021 13:06:19 +0100 |
On Tue, 17 Aug 2021 at 13:02, Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 11:37:21PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > How do we know that no one has ever used such configuration? The conversion
> > was meant to be bug-compatible.
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> We don't. But we do know that a zero input value was never documented
> prior to 1e63fe68580, which has not yet been released. Can we claim
> that an undocumented input value has undefined behavior, giving us
> freedom to modify that behavior until it is documented?
Dunno; I definitely don't want a behaviour-change patch at this
point in the release-cycle, though...
-- PMM
Re: [PULL 0/1] Last minute fix for -rc4, Paolo Bonzini, 2021/08/16