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[Xen-devel] alloc_vm_area() calling vmalloc_sync_all()

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Subject: [Xen-devel] alloc_vm_area() calling vmalloc_sync_all()
From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:39:29 +0000
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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


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