Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86/paravirt: Fix baremetal paravirt MSR ops
From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Thu Sep 17 2015 - 11:33:45 EST
On 17/09/2015 17:31, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>
>> What about 0 + WARN?
>
> why 0?
>
> 0xdeadbeef or any other pattern (even 0x3636363636) makes more sense (of
> course also WARN... but most folks don't read dmesg for WARNs)
>
> (it's the same thing we do for list or slab poison stuff)
Sorry, brain fart. That makes sense for the safe variants. It would
require some auditing though.
Paolo
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