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

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Message-Id: <1171646779.20683.5.camel@basalt>
Date:	Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:26:19 -0600
From:	Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@...ibm.com>
To:	Keir Fraser <keir@...source.com>
Cc:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@....de>,
	Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>,
	xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com, virtualization@...ts.osdl.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...ell.com>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@...source.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@...cam.ac.uk>,
	Jimi Xenidis <jimix@...son.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [patch 12/21] Xen-paravirt: Allocate and free
	vmalloc areas

On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 17:10 +0000, Keir Fraser wrote:
> 
> 
> On 16/2/07 16:46, "Jeremy Fitzhardinge" <jeremy@...p.org> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> This whole thing isn't an issue on ia64 (they no-op lock_vm_area) and
> powerpc doesn't use any of the Xen driver code at this time.

Not sure what you mean? PowerPC uses pretty much all of the Xen driver
code: event channels, blkfront/back, netfront/back, console, etc.

-- 
Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center

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