linux-kernel - Re: [patch 16/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Allocate and free vmalloc areas

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Message-ID: <20070316091648.GI23174@elte.hu>
Date:	Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:16:48 +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>,
	Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@...source.com>,
	Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@...cam.ac.uk>,
	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...ell.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 16/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Allocate and free vmalloc areas


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

> Allocate/destroy a 'vmalloc' VM area: alloc_vm_area and free_vm_area 
> The alloc function ensures that page tables are constructed for the 
> region of kernel virtual address space and mapped into init_mm.

> --- a/arch/i386/mm/fault.c

> +struct vm_struct *alloc_vm_area(unsigned long size)

this should go into mm/vmalloc.c.

	Ingo
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