From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Arch specific mmap attributes
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:58:00 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1270630680.2300.91.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100407.000343.181989028.davem@davemloft.net>
On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 00:03 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > I'm not against changing kernel internal. I only disagree mmu
> > attribute fashion will be become used widely.
>
> Desktop already uses similar features via PCI mmap
> attributes and such, not to mention MSR settings on
> x86.
This is a very good point, we've had all sort of trouble hacking that in
for PCI mmap, between trying to get write combine in, which we got
on /proc via a tweak I think we never got over to sysfs, and the ability
to control cachability, for which we used to have O_SYNC hacks
in /dev/mem, I think there is room for some nice and clean set of
attributes here.
Cheers,
Ben.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-07 8:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-06 5:09 mprotect pgprot handling weirdness Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-04-06 5:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-04-06 5:43 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-04-06 5:52 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-04-06 6:07 ` Arch specific mmap attributes (Was: mprotect pgprot handling weirdness) Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-04-06 6:24 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-04-06 7:30 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-04-06 10:26 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-04-06 22:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-04-07 6:03 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-04-07 7:03 ` Arch specific mmap attributes David Miller
2010-04-07 7:14 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-04-07 7:18 ` David Miller
2010-04-07 9:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-04-07 8:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2010-04-07 8:56 ` Arch specific mmap attributes (Was: mprotect pgprot handling weirdness) Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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