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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: create array based interface to change page attribute
Thomas Hellström wrote:
> Ouch, so we'll be needing an ioremap_wc(), I guess. We probably
> shouldn't use the linear kernel map for this anyway, since that would
> require a chipset flush for each ring commit. We can actually use
> vmap() with a wc page protection for that, but an ioremap_wc() would
> certainly save us a lot of trouble.

please don't use vmap() as a hack for mapping IO memory when you should use ioremap_wc()....
Lets get this thing right rather than finding whichever hack of the day
happens to work with the implementation from yesterday.
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