From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [patch 12/21] Xen-paravirt: Allocate and free vmalloc areas Date: 16 Feb 2007 10:18:43 +0100 Message-ID: <20070216091843.GB28196@muc.de> References: <20070216022449.739760547@goop.org> <20070216022531.417300365@goop.org> <20070215224322.5c73d8e9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <45D55852.9000103@goop.org> <20070215232447.5ee67f50.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <45D55DB1.7040002@goop.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:18:43 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45D55DB1.7040002@goop.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Zachary Amsden , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Ian Pratt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jan Beulich , Chris Wright , virtualization@lists.osdl.org, Andrew Morton , Christian Limpach List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org > 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. -Andi From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423446AbXBPJSq (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Feb 2007 04:18:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423452AbXBPJSq (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Feb 2007 04:18:46 -0500 Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:3505 "EHLO mail.muc.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423446AbXBPJSp (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Feb 2007 04:18:45 -0500 Date: 16 Feb 2007 10:18:43 +0100 Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:18:43 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Chris Wright , Zachary Amsden , Ian Pratt , Christian Limpach , Jan Beulich Subject: Re: [patch 12/21] Xen-paravirt: Allocate and free vmalloc areas Message-ID: <20070216091843.GB28196@muc.de> References: <20070216022449.739760547@goop.org> <20070216022531.417300365@goop.org> <20070215224322.5c73d8e9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <45D55852.9000103@goop.org> <20070215232447.5ee67f50.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <45D55DB1.7040002@goop.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45D55DB1.7040002@goop.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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. -Andi