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

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Keir Fraser wrote:
> Hmmm... Actually looks like a bunch of architectures do lazy sync of the
> vmalloc area, although neither ia64 nor powerpc does so. However, all
> current users of the alloc_vm_area() function would be okay since none of
> the other lazy-syncing architectures are supported by Xen.
>   

Well, assuming that alloc_vm_area() has some non-Xen use, the right
thing is for archs to export vmalloc_sync_all(), and just use that from
common code.

    J

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