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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, virtualization@lists.osdl.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
	Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Subject: Re: Re: [patch 12/21] Xen-paravirt: Allocate and free vmalloc areas
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:26:33 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45D60569.2050702@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C1FBB450.99B6%Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk>

Keir Fraser wrote:
> Hmmm... Actually looks like a bunch of architectures do lazy sync of the
> vmalloc area, although neither ia64 nor powerpc does so. However, all
> current users of the alloc_vm_area() function would be okay since none of
> the other lazy-syncing architectures are supported by Xen.
>   

Well, assuming that alloc_vm_area() has some non-Xen use, the right
thing is for archs to export vmalloc_sync_all(), and just use that from
common code.

    J

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-16 19:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <C1FBB152.99B0%keir@xensource.com>
2007-02-16 19:19 ` Re: [patch 12/21] Xen-paravirt: Allocate and free vmalloc areas Keir Fraser
2007-02-16 19:26   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2007-02-16 23:29     ` Keir Fraser
2007-02-16 23:41       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
     [not found] <C1FB967F.998B%keir@xensource.com>
2007-02-16 17:27 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
     [not found] <C1FB9605.9988%keir@xensource.com>
2007-02-16 17:26 ` Hollis Blanchard
     [not found] <C1FB4190.98FA%keir@xensource.com>
2007-02-16 11:34 ` Andi Kleen

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