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SubjectRe: Cache incoherencies (WAS: New resources - pls, explain :-( )
On Tue, Aug 24, 1999, Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk> wrote:

>>Non-cache coherent archs should probably
>>define a kmalloc flag to allocate non cachable space. (I still don't know
>>what is the cleanest way to get non-cachable space. ioremap ?).
>
>Ioremap won't necessarily work on physical RAM. You should probably define
>vmalloc_uncached or some such.

I'm not terribly familiar with Linux VM, and so I'm not completely sure
how to implement vmalloc_uncached on ARM. I'm wondering if I need to
re-implement all of vmalloc sub-routines (alloc_area_pmd_uncached,
alloc_area_pte_uncached) changing the set_pte call to have the
appropriate attributes ? (BTW. what's the meaning of L_PTE_BUFFERABLE ?).

or can I just alloc the area and then make pages non-cachable using
pte_modify afterwards ? In this case I'm not sure how to walk the PTEs...

Also alloc_are_pte makes several calls to __get_free_page, so I beleive
there's no way to make sure they are physically contiguous, is there ?
(note that in our case, on page should be plenty enough)

Regards,
Benjamin.

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