* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Allocate a fixmap slot for use by a paravirt_ops implementation. This > is intended for early-boot bootstrap mappings. Once the zones and > allocator have been set up, it would be better to use get_vm_area() to > allocate some virtual space. > > 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. It is needed early because it contains the vcpu state, > including the interrupt mask. Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Ingo _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
