Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] xen: arm: process XENMEM_add_to_physmap_range forwards not backwards.

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 14:08 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 18.12.13 at 14:39, Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> 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>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

Thanks. I've applied without waiting for a further ARM maintainer ack
since the nature of the change is not really specifc to arm

(I fixed the "unusualy" typo I spotted above as I went).

Just to confirm -- Are you going to make this not writeback its params
while you fix the x86 equivalent? I can take a look if not.



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