Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751157AbWCVJ1n (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Mar 2006 04:27:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751159AbWCVJ1n (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Mar 2006 04:27:43 -0500 Received: from mta2.cl.cam.ac.uk ([128.232.0.14]:49611 "EHLO mta2.cl.cam.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751157AbWCVJ1n (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Mar 2006 04:27:43 -0500 In-Reply-To: <44211019.60007@vmware.com> References: <20060322063040.960068000@sorel.sous-sol.org> <20060322063805.741915000@sorel.sous-sol.org> <44211019.60007@vmware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: virtualization@lists.osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christian Limpach , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Ian Pratt , Chris Wright From: Keir Fraser Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 30/35] Add generic_page_range() function Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 09:27:58 +0000 To: Zachary Amsden X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 824 Lines: 22 On 22 Mar 2006, at 08:51, Zachary Amsden wrote: >> Although this interface is intended to be useful in a wide range of >> situations, it is currently used specifically by several Xen >> subsystems, for example: to ensure that pagetables have been allocated >> for a virtual address range, and to construct batched special >> pagetable update requests to map I/O memory (in ioremap()). >> > > This interface is great, and highly useful. But it doesn't seem to be > able to work on native hardware, as it doesn't support large pages. Ah, good point. I'll add that. -- Keir - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/