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From: Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [patch 12/21] Xen-paravirt: Allocate and free
	vmalloc areas
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:10:08 +0000
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On 16/2/07 09:18, "Andi Kleen" <ak@muc.de> 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