Messages in this thread | | | From | Keir Fraser <> | Subject | Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 30/35] Add generic_page_range() function | Date | Wed, 22 Mar 2006 09:27:58 +0000 |
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On 22 Mar 2006, at 08:51, Zachary Amsden wrote:
>> Although this interface is intended to be useful in a wide range of >> situations, it is currently used specifically by several Xen >> subsystems, for example: to ensure that pagetables have been allocated >> for a virtual address range, and to construct batched special >> pagetable update requests to map I/O memory (in ioremap()). >> > > This interface is great, and highly useful. But it doesn't seem to be > able to work on native hardware, as it doesn't support large pages.
Ah, good point. I'll add that.
-- Keir
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