Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 30/35] Add generic_page_range() function

[Keir Fraser]

On 22 Mar 2006, at 08:51, Zachary Amsden wrote:

> > Although this interface is intended to be useful in a wide range of
> > situations, it is currently used specifically by several Xen
> > subsystems, for example: to ensure that pagetables have been allocated
> > for a virtual address range, and to construct batched special
> > pagetable update requests to map I/O memory (in ioremap()).
>
> This interface is great, and highly useful.  But it doesn't seem to be 
> able to work on native hardware, as it doesn't support large pages.

Ah, good point. I'll add that.

 -- Keir

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