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xen-devel
[Xen-devel] Re: [patch 16/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Allocate and free	vmallo
 
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Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> | 
 
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[Xen-devel] Re: [patch 16/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Allocate and free	vmalloc areas | 
 
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> | 
 
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Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:05:50 -0700 | 
 
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Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> +struct vm_struct *alloc_vm_area(unsigned long size)
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> 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
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