Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/2] tools/libs: don't use alloca(3)

[Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2016-08-17 at 15:33 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> Wei Liu (2):
>   libs/gnttab: do not use alloca(3)
>   libs/foreignmemory: do not use alloca(3)
> 
FWIW, both patches:

Reviewed-by: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@xxxxxxxxxx>

Out of curiosity, I've tried to figure out what the advantage was in
using alloca() instead of mmap(), in case of mappings smaller than
PAGE_SIZE (did also a small bit of archaeology but that didn't help
either).

Oh, well.

Regards,
Dario
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