From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jes Sorensen Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 07:32:11 +0000 Subject: Re: [rfc] generic allocator and mspec driver Message-Id: List-Id: References: <16897.9640.160896.31584@jaguar.mkp.net> In-Reply-To: <16897.9640.160896.31584@jaguar.mkp.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Robin" = Robin Holt writes: Robin> On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 03:02:01PM -0500, Jes Sorensen wrote: >> I don't see any valid such cases. In principle one has to go >> through the reverse procedure to convert something from uncached to >> cached and since we don't do that in any place I don't see any >> valid reason to do so. Anyone doing it in kdb etc. would be in for >> what they are getting, so I don't think thats valid concern. Robin> I guess I didn't follow you. Are you saying you would have no Robin> concern with changing the memory protections to prevent that Robin> type of reference? Yes Jes