linux-kernel - Re: [patch 06/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: paravirt

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Message-ID: <20070228083055.GA8866@elte.hu>
Date:	Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:30:55 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <ak@....de>, 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>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [patch 06/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: paravirt_ops: allocate a fixmap slot


* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org> wrote:

> > Yes.  vmalloc would have the annoying side-effect of actually 
> > allocating some pages which would be shadowed by the remapping, but 
> > I guess get_vm_area would do the job.  I'll give it a go.
> 
> Hm, this is a bit awkward.  We need to map the shared info page fairly 
> early - say, around paging_init - but we're still on the bootmem 
> allocator at that point, so get_vm_area isn't usable yet.  Using a 
> fixmap keeps things simple.  It seems to me that having a single 
> fixmap available is useful for this kind of simple/early mapping, and 
> if someone needs to map something larger, then they can put it off 
> until get_vm_area() is available...

fair enough. Please rename it to FIX_PARAVIRT_BOOTUP - you can still 
rely on it being available later on too, but we'd like to give everyone 
the right fundamental idea about this: it's meant to be a limited, 
inflexible interface for bootstrap only.

	Ingo
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