Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [patch 12/21] Xen-paravirt: Allocate and freevmalloc areas

From: Keir Fraser
Date: Fri Feb 16 2007 - 06:10:34 EST





On 16/2/07 09:18, "Andi Kleen" <ak@xxxxxx> wrote:

>> It's for populating the pagetable in a vmalloc area. There's magic in
>
> If the lazy setup doesn't work for you you can always call vmalloc_sync()
> early.

vmalloc_sync_all()? That's a great idea. We can put that in alloc_vm_area()
and kill {lock,unlock}_vm_area() which is a nice interface simplification.

Thanks!
Keir

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