> On i386 with PAE, this is not necessary because the kernel's mappings
> are shared between all processes anyway, so it would be a no-op.
> However, non-PAE i386 has a separate kernel mapping for each process,
> and so needs to sync them - typically lazily on faults, but
> vmalloc_sync_all exis
On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 21:29 -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> I'm looking at making all architectures export a vmalloc_sync_all()
> function, so that generic code can be sure that a particular vmalloc
> mapping is present in all address spaces. I need this to implement a
> function to reserve a
Hi,
I'm looking at making all architectures export a vmalloc_sync_all()
function, so that generic code can be sure that a particular vmalloc
mapping is present in all address spaces. I need this to implement a
function to reserve a chunk of vmalloc address space complete with
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