Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] dirty-bitmaps: allow merging to disabled bitmaps

2018-09-27 Thread John Snow
On 09/26/2018 10:25 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 9/19/18 4:16 PM, John Snow wrote: >> >> >> On 09/19/2018 05:08 PM, Eric Blake wrote: >>> On 9/19/18 2:58 PM, John Snow wrote: We wish to prohibit merging to read-only bitmaps and frozen bitmaps, but "disabled" bitmaps only preclude their r

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] dirty-bitmaps: allow merging to disabled bitmaps

2018-09-26 Thread Eric Blake
On 9/19/18 4:16 PM, John Snow wrote: On 09/19/2018 05:08 PM, Eric Blake wrote: On 9/19/18 2:58 PM, John Snow wrote: We wish to prohibit merging to read-only bitmaps and frozen bitmaps, but "disabled" bitmaps only preclude their recording of live, new information. It does not prohibit them fro

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] dirty-bitmaps: allow merging to disabled bitmaps

2018-09-21 Thread Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
19.09.2018 22:58, John Snow wrote: We wish to prohibit merging to read-only bitmaps and frozen bitmaps, but "disabled" bitmaps only preclude their recording of live, new information. It does not prohibit them from manual writes at the behest of the user, as is the case for merge operations. Repo

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] dirty-bitmaps: allow merging to disabled bitmaps

2018-09-19 Thread John Snow
On 09/19/2018 04:58 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 9/19/18 2:58 PM, John Snow wrote: >> We wish to prohibit merging to read-only bitmaps and frozen bitmaps, >> but "disabled" bitmaps only preclude their recording of live, new >> information. It does not prohibit them from manual writes at the behest

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] dirty-bitmaps: allow merging to disabled bitmaps

2018-09-19 Thread John Snow
On 09/19/2018 04:58 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 9/19/18 2:58 PM, John Snow wrote: >> We wish to prohibit merging to read-only bitmaps and frozen bitmaps, >> but "disabled" bitmaps only preclude their recording of live, new >> information. It does not prohibit them from manual writes at the behest

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] dirty-bitmaps: allow merging to disabled bitmaps

2018-09-19 Thread John Snow
On 09/19/2018 05:08 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 9/19/18 2:58 PM, John Snow wrote: >> We wish to prohibit merging to read-only bitmaps and frozen bitmaps, >> but "disabled" bitmaps only preclude their recording of live, new >> information. It does not prohibit them from manual writes at the behest

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] dirty-bitmaps: allow merging to disabled bitmaps

2018-09-19 Thread Eric Blake
On 9/19/18 2:58 PM, John Snow wrote: We wish to prohibit merging to read-only bitmaps and frozen bitmaps, but "disabled" bitmaps only preclude their recording of live, new information. It does not prohibit them from manual writes at the behest of the user, as is the case for merge operations. Re

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] dirty-bitmaps: allow merging to disabled bitmaps

2018-09-19 Thread Eric Blake
On 9/19/18 2:58 PM, John Snow wrote: We wish to prohibit merging to read-only bitmaps and frozen bitmaps, but "disabled" bitmaps only preclude their recording of live, new information. It does not prohibit them from manual writes at the behest of the user, as is the case for merge operations. I

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] dirty-bitmaps: allow merging to disabled bitmaps

2018-09-19 Thread John Snow
We wish to prohibit merging to read-only bitmaps and frozen bitmaps, but "disabled" bitmaps only preclude their recording of live, new information. It does not prohibit them from manual writes at the behest of the user, as is the case for merge operations. Reported-by: Eric Blake Signed-off-by: J