Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:12:31 +0000 | Subject | Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [patch 12/21] Xen-paravirt: Allocate and free vmalloc areas | From | Keir Fraser <> |
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On 16/2/07 17:10, "Keir Fraser" <keir@xensource.com> wrote:
> On 16/2/07 16:46, "Jeremy Fitzhardinge" <jeremy@goop.org> wrote: > >> Yes, that would work. Unfortunately that's i386 arch-specific, whereas >> the rest of this code is generic. I guess I could just move it all to >> arch/i386/mm. > > This whole thing isn't an issue on ia64 (they no-op lock_vm_area) and > powerpc doesn't use any of the Xen driver code at this time. > vmalloc_sync_all is supported by both i386 and x86_64, so we can make the > call conditional on CONFIG_X86 so that ia64 will continue to build. This is > what I've done in xen-unstable.
In fact that file is only built for i386 and x86_64, so there really is no problem with using vmalloc_sync_all() directly and without ifdef.
-- Keir
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