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

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Message-ID: <45D5DFF3.6040005@goop.org>
Date:	Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:46:43 -0800
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@....de>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	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

Andi Kleen wrote:
>> It's for populating the pagetable in a vmalloc area.  There's magic in
>>     
>
> If the lazy setup doesn't work for you you can always call vmalloc_sync()
> early.
>   

Yes, that would work.  Unfortunately that's i386 arch-specific, whereas
the rest of this code is generic.  I guess I could just move it all to
arch/i386/mm.

    J
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