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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 16/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Allocate and free
	vmalloc areas
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:05:50 -0700
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Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> +struct vm_struct *alloc_vm_area(unsigned long size)
>>     
>
> this should go into mm/vmalloc.c.

The trouble is that it calls the arch-dependent vmalloc_sync_all(),
which is important for Xen's use of this function.  And without that
it's just a pointless wrapper around get_vm_area.

    J