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Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] powerpc: consistent memory mapping.
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 21:23 +0300, Ilya Yanok wrote:
> Defining the start virtual address of the consistent memory
> in configs leads to overlapping of the consistent area with
> the other virtual regions (fixmap, pkmap, vmalloc). Defaults from
> current kernel just set consistent memory area to be somewhere
> high in the vmalloc area and then you need to pray there will be
> not enough vmalloc allocations to overlap.

 .../...

What about just ripping that consistent memory implementation out
completely and using the normal vmalloc/ioremap allocator instead ?

Any reason not to ?

Cheers,
Ben.