Re: [patch 18/20] XEN-paravirt: Add Xen driver utility functions.

On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 05:45:57PM -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge 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.

Shouldn't these functions go into the core mm/ kernel code if they are
needed, instead of living in the xen directories?

thanks,

greg k-h
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