Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v12 00/26] COarse-grain LOck-stepping Virtual Machines for Non-stop Service

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wei Liu writes ("Re: [PATCH v12 00/26] COarse-grain LOck-stepping Virtual 
Machines for Non-stop Service"):
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 04:21:36PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Fixing this will involve some code rearrangement and new code.  I am
> > worried that this might not be sorted out by the Xen 4.7 freeze
> > deadline.
> 
> If the error handling issue only affects COLO (confined in COLO related
> code, won't affect ordinary use cases), I'm fine with fixing it post
> freeze.  I think this is the case because COLO code is now
> self-contained.

Certainly bugs caused by the bad error handling would affect only
COLO.  Fixing it might involve small and obvious changes to non-COLO
code; I haven't checked.  But they won't be risky if done early.

Thanks to Wei and Lars.

Ian.

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