* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy at goop.org> wrote: > Allocate a fixmap slot for use by a paravirt_ops implementation. Xen > uses this to map the hypervisor's shared info page, which doesn't have > a pseudo-physical page number, and therefore can't be mapped > ordinarily. why not vmalloc it on the guest side? fixmaps are bad for this purpose for a general paravirt implementation, it limits the size of the shared info page, etc. Ingo
