From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751151AbXANHxE (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Jan 2007 02:53:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751154AbXANHxE (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Jan 2007 02:53:04 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:40000 "EHLO perch.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751151AbXANHxD (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Jan 2007 02:53:03 -0500 Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 23:41:25 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Ian Pratt , Christian Limpach , Chris Wright , Jan Beulich Subject: Re: [patch 18/20] XEN-paravirt: Add Xen driver utility functions. Message-ID: <20070114074125.GB10585@kroah.com> References: <20070113014539.408244126@goop.org> <20070113014649.046041214@goop.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070113014649.046041214@goop.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 functions go into the core mm/ kernel code if they are needed, instead of living in the xen directories? thanks, greg k-h