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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: can device drivers return non-ram via vm_ops->nopage?
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 15:57:29 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1079931449.912.183.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040322002041.I26708@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>


> exists because architectures haven't defined their private
> pgprot_writecombine() implementations, preferring instead to add
> to the preprocessor junk instead.

And it's not even about writecombine... Like writecombine is an
attribute of the PCI host bridge on pmacs, not a pgprot, while
cacheability issues cannot be always abstracted the same way on
different archs. Actually, GUARDED could be used for !writecombine
on ppc, but !GUARDED would allow prefetch and out of order IOs....

Ben.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-03-22  5:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-20 13:30 can device drivers return non-ram via vm_ops->nopage? Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-20 14:40 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-20 15:06   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-20 15:27     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-20 15:44     ` Russell King
2004-03-20 15:57       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-20 16:15         ` Russell King
2004-03-20 16:25           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-20 16:57             ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-20 17:48             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-20 19:03               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-20 15:58       ` Jaroslav Kysela
2004-03-20 16:09         ` Russell King
2004-03-20 19:44           ` Jaroslav Kysela
2004-03-20 22:23             ` Russell King
2004-03-20 22:45               ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-20 23:54                 ` Russell King
2004-03-21  0:22                   ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-03-22  4:46                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-03-22 18:23                       ` Richard Curnow
2004-03-21  0:23                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-21  9:52                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-03-21 10:39                   ` Jaroslav Kysela
2004-03-22  4:43             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-03-20 20:13     ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-20 20:28       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-20 20:50       ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-20 22:26         ` Russell King
2004-03-20 22:45           ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-21 20:45             ` David Woodhouse
2004-03-21 20:49               ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-03-21 20:57                 ` David Woodhouse
2004-03-21 21:53                   ` Linus Torvalds
2004-03-21 22:17                     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-21 22:23                     ` David Woodhouse
2004-03-21 22:23                     ` Russell King
2004-03-21 22:34                       ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-21 22:42                         ` David Woodhouse
2004-03-21 23:06                           ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-21 22:51                         ` Russell King
2004-03-21 23:09                           ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-21 23:11                           ` Linus Torvalds
2004-03-21 23:22                             ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-21 23:51                               ` Linus Torvalds
2004-03-21 23:58                                 ` Russell King
2004-03-22  0:34                                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-22  3:05                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2004-03-23 17:59                                   ` Andy Whitcroft
2004-03-23 17:58                                     ` David Woodhouse
2004-03-23 18:11                                     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-22  0:02                                 ` David Woodhouse
2004-03-22  3:28                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2004-03-22  0:10                                 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-22  0:20                                   ` Russell King
2004-03-22  0:33                                     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-22  4:57                                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-03-21 23:45                             ` Russell King
2004-03-22  0:23                               ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-22  0:29                                 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-22  1:28                                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-22  6:36           ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-20 17:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-03-20 17:56   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-20 18:22   ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-21  3:13   ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-03-21  6:23     ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-03-21  7:00       ` Chris Wedgwood

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