From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jan Beulich" Subject: alloc_vm_area() calling vmalloc_sync_all() Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:39:29 +0000 Message-ID: <474167E1.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Is there a specific reason for this? Other VM area functions don't do this pro-actively, and native only needs this for allowing NMI and MCE = notifiers access to vmalloc space (which is being taken care of when registering such handlers). Thanks, Jan