linux-kernel - Re: [patch 12/21] Xen-paravirt: Allocate and free vmalloc areas

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Message-ID: <45D55852.9000103@goop.org>
Date:	Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:08:02 -0800
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Andi Kleen <ak@....de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	virtualization@...ts.osdl.org, xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>,
	Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@...source.com>,
	Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@...cam.ac.uk>,
	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...ell.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 12/21] Xen-paravirt: Allocate and free vmalloc areas

Andrew Morton wrote:
> This won't work when CONFIG_PREEMPT=y.  The pagefault handler will see
> in_atomic() and will scram.
>   

Is there some other way to get the pagetable populated for the address
range?

    J
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