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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for-4.11 0/2] xenstore: reduce use of unsafe conversions


  • To: Marcello Seri <marcello.seri@xxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • From: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 20:54:14 +0200
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  • Cc: Christian Lindig <christian.lindig@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Delivery-date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 18:54:19 +0000
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xenproject.org>
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On 31/05/18 15:05, Marcello Seri wrote:
> When xenstore was updated to support safe-string, some unnecessary
> copies were introduced. A further patch reduced the copies at the price
> of many calls to unsafe conversions between bytes and strings. In the
> port we also did not notice that some C stubs were still incorrectly
> using ocaml strings as mutable payload.
> 
> This set of patches updates the C stubs that use mutable payloads passed
> from ocaml, and reduces the amount of unsafe conversions where possible
> without further increasing the number of copies.
> 
> This seems also to fix some unclear instabilities that appeared after
> the former patch introducing the unsafe conversion with some version of
> the ocaml compiler.
> 
> Marcello Seri (2):
>   ocaml/libs/xb: use bytes in place of strings for mutable buffers
>   ocaml/xenstored: reduce use of unsafe conversions

For the series:

Release-acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>


Juergen

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