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[Xen-devel] Re: [patch 12/21] Xen-paravirt: Allocate and free vmalloc ar

To: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [patch 12/21] Xen-paravirt: Allocate and free vmalloc areas
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:46:43 -0800
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Andi Kleen wrote:
>> It's for populating the pagetable in a vmalloc area.  There's magic in
>>     
>
> If the lazy setup doesn't work for you you can always call vmalloc_sync()
> early.
>   

Yes, that would work.  Unfortunately that's i386 arch-specific, whereas
the rest of this code is generic.  I guess I could just move it all to
arch/i386/mm.

    J

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