On 16/2/07 19:06, "Keir Fraser" <keir at xensource.com> wrote: >> I had moved it to mm/vmalloc.c in response to previous review comments >> (namely, its not Xen specific, so it shouldn't live in the Xen part of >> the tree). > > Then the call will have to be CONFIG_X86. I hadn't realised powerpc were > also using lock_vm_area. However I suspect that the x86 issue that those > functions were written doesn't even exist on powerpc, or any other non-x86 > architecture. 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. -- Keir
