Re: [patch] mm: rewrite vmap layer

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On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:39:52PM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > Second question - will ARMs separate module area still work with this
> > code in place (which allocates regions in a different address space
> > using __get_vm_area and __vmalloc_area)?
> 
> I hope so. The old APIs are still in place. You will actually get lazy
> unmapping, but that should be a transparent change unless you have any
> issues with the aliasing.
>  

x86_64 does this anyway, so if that's continuing to work, then it should
be fine.

r, Kyle
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