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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] xen: arm: process XENMEM_add_to_physmap_range forwards not backwards.
On 12/18/2013 01:39 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
Jan points out that processing the list backwards is rather counter intuitive
and that the effect of the hypercall can differ between forwards and backwards
processing (e.g. in the presence of duplicate idx or gpfn, which would be
unusualy but as Jan says, users are a creative bunch)
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mukesh Rathor <mukesh.rathor@xxxxxxxxxx>
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v2: Remember to crank the errs array too.
Resending despite abuse of overwriting the IN paramters, since coming to
rely on backwards processing is a harder hole to get out of than going
from modifying the strict to not.
Release: subtle ABI change, should go in to 4.4 before people rely on it (they
are not relying on it today TTBOMK and it seems unlikely but lets not risk it)
Yes, I agree: the risk of having to work around a bad ABI indefinitely
is worse than the relatively small risk of finding a bug in this and
then fixing it.
Release-acked-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
-George
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