On Thu, 8 Oct 2015, Ian Campbell wrote: > > If the concern is the behavior is changed, I'm happy to rework this code > > to keep exactly the same behavior. I.e any 32-bit write containing > > a 0 byte will be ignored. This is not optimal but at least I'm not > > opening the pandora box of fixing every single error in the code touch > > by this series. > > I'm okay with the new behaviour, I think Stefano was willing to tolerate it > (based on <alpine.deb.2.02.1510081220190.1...@kaball.uk.xensource.com>). > > So if we aren't going to fix it to DTRT WRT writing zero to a target then I > think we can go with the current variant and not change to ignoring any > word with a zero byte in it. OK.
BTW it would be interesting to see how real hardware behaves in this regard. I seem to recall that X-Gene was ignoring 0 writes too. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
