Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xc_map_foreign_pages(), a convenient alt

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Subject:	Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xc_map_foreign_pages(), a convenient alternative to xc_map_foreign_batch()
From:	Markus Armbruster <armbru@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Thu, 06 Sep 2007 13:24:26 +0200
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"Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

[...]
> Also why do you need an extra allocation and copy to arr?

To avoid clobbering the arr argument, which I feel would be a rather
bad API.

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