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[Xen-devel] Re: [patch 16/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Allocate and free vmallo

To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [patch 16/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Allocate and free vmalloc areas
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:16:48 +0100
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* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Allocate/destroy a 'vmalloc' VM area: alloc_vm_area and free_vm_area 
> The alloc function ensures that page tables are constructed for the 
> region of kernel virtual address space and mapped into init_mm.

> --- a/arch/i386/mm/fault.c

> +struct vm_struct *alloc_vm_area(unsigned long size)

this should go into mm/vmalloc.c.

        Ingo

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