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[PATCH] i386: PARAVIRT: Allocate a fixmap slot
authorJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Wed, 2 May 2007 17:27:13 +0000 (19:27 +0200)
committerAndi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org>
Wed, 2 May 2007 17:27:13 +0000 (19:27 +0200)
commit89b0a834922369f315c02a7af4da1ce81213a4b8
treed58d07649c62475810cfa527768034163c89eb15
parent7420795631a052f9a67b1c2eba55bf3d2f4f32a0
[PATCH] i386: PARAVIRT: Allocate a fixmap slot

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.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
include/asm-i386/fixmap.h