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From: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 02/18] x86: kvmclock: allocate pvclock shared memory area
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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:06:49 +0400
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On 11/16/2012 06:07 AM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> 
> We want to expose the pvclock shared memory areas, which 
> the hypervisor periodically updates, to userspace.
> 
> For a linear mapping from userspace, it is necessary that
> entire page sized regions are used for array of pvclock 
> structures.
> 
> There is no such guarantee with per cpu areas, therefore move
> to memblock_alloc based allocation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
> 
No further objections.

Acked-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>