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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for 4.7] xen: Replace alloc_vcpu_guest_context() with vmalloc()

To: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>, Xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 13:41:00 +0100
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>, Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx>, Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>, Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
Delivery-date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 12:42:19 +0000
List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xen.org>

Hi Andrew,

On 21/08/15 18:51, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> This essentially reverts c/s 2037f2adb "x86: introduce
> alloc_vcpu_guest_context()", including the newer arm bits, but achieves
> the same end goal by using the newer vmalloc() infrastructure.

I would keep alloc_vcpu_guest_context and replace the content by
vmalloc(...). It would avoid to open-coding the allocation on the vCPU
on different places.

Regards,

-- 
Julien Grall

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