Re: [PATCH] Bugfix for VMI paravirt ops

From: Zachary Amsden
Date: Thu Apr 05 2007 - 20:47:46 EST


Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
Zachary Amsden wrote:
So the clean fix for this is still even further out. I don't think I
want to hook kmap/unmap as paravirt-ops.

Yes, it seems like overkill.

How about something like adding PARAVIRT_LAZY_FLUSH as an argument to
set_lazy_mode? It would be valid to use at any time, and it would flush
any pending work while still remaining in whatever lazy mode its
currently in. That way kmap_atomic can flush anything pending without
having to muck around with the current lazy state.

Yes, thought about several solutions, and this seems the best. But it requires a new paravirt-op.

Zach

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