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[Xen-devel] Re: [patch 06/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: paravirt_ops:	allocate a 
| To: | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> |  
| Subject: | [Xen-devel] Re: [patch 06/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: paravirt_ops:	allocate a fixmap slot |  
| From: | Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> |  
| Date: | Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:31:45 +0100 |  
| Cc: | Zachary Amsden <zach@xxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,	virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,	linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,	Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx>, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |  
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* 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
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