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From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: ccan@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mem: Add memswap() function
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 17:37:59 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150909073759.GE17641@voom.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k2s04uz5.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>


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On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 04:08:38AM +0930, Paul 'Rusty' Russell wrote:
> David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> writes:
> > Add a memswap() function to the mem module, which exchanges two (equal
> > sized, non-overlapping) memory regions.
> 
> Nice!
> 
> I wonder about a #if CCAN_MEM_DEBUG'd test which assert() tests for
> no overlap.
> 
> Though maybe it's cheap enough that a simple assert() is always OK?

Good idea.  And actually.. an exposed function to tell if memory
ranges overlap might be nice too, why not.

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      reply	other threads:[~2015-09-09  7:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-05  4:44 [PATCH 0/2] Small extensions to the mem module David Gibson
2015-09-05  4:44 ` [PATCH 1/2] mem: Remove array_size dependency David Gibson
2015-09-05  4:44 ` [PATCH 2/2] mem: Add memswap() function David Gibson
2015-09-08 18:38   ` Rusty Russell
2015-09-09  7:37     ` David Gibson [this message]

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