On 16/2/07 09:18, "Andi Kleen" [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

It's for populating the pagetable in a vmalloc area.  There's magic in

If the lazy setup doesn't work for you you can always call vmalloc_sync()
early.

vmalloc_sync_all()? That's a great idea. We can put that in alloc_vm_area()
and kill {lock,unlock}_vm_area() which is a nice interface simplification.

 Thanks!
 Keir