Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750713AbXBPLKO (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Feb 2007 06:10:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750752AbXBPLKN (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Feb 2007 06:10:13 -0500 Received: from 207.47.60.150.static.nextweb.net ([207.47.60.150]:19698 "EHLO webmail.xensource.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750713AbXBPLKM (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Feb 2007 06:10:12 -0500 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.2.5.060620 Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:10:08 +0000 Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [patch 12/21] Xen-paravirt: Allocate and free vmalloc areas From: Keir Fraser To: Andi Kleen , Jeremy Fitzhardinge CC: Zachary Amsden , , Ian Pratt , , Jan Beulich , Chris Wright , , Andrew Morton , Christian Limpach Message-ID: Thread-Topic: [Xen-devel] Re: [patch 12/21] Xen-paravirt: Allocate and free vmalloc areas Thread-Index: AcdRuwSGQz8iHb2uEduvqQAX8io7RQ== In-Reply-To: <20070216091843.GB28196@muc.de> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 629 Lines: 21 On 16/2/07 09:18, "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. vmalloc_sync_all()? That's a great idea. We can put that in alloc_vm_area() and kill {lock,unlock}_vm_area() which is a nice interface simplification. Thanks! 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/