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Message-ID: <45D60569.2050702@goop.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:26:33 -0800
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@...cam.ac.uk>
CC: Keir Fraser <keir@...source.com>,
Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@...source.com>,
xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com, Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
virtualization@...ts.osdl.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...ell.com>,
Andi Kleen <ak@....de>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [patch 12/21] Xen-paravirt: Allocate and free
vmalloc areas
Keir Fraser wrote:
> Hmmm... Actually looks like a bunch of architectures do lazy sync of the
> vmalloc area, although neither ia64 nor powerpc does so. However, all
> current users of the alloc_vm_area() function would be okay since none of
> the other lazy-syncing architectures are supported by Xen.
>
Well, assuming that alloc_vm_area() has some non-Xen use, the right
thing is for archs to export vmalloc_sync_all(), and just use that from
common code.
J
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