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

2007-01-13 Thread Greg KH
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 functi

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

2007-01-13 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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. Lock an area so that PTEs are accessible in the current address space: lock_vm_area and unlock_vm