Håvard Skinnemoen writes:

> So far, I've only seen static flags. And I really can't think of a
> reason to set the flags dynamically...

The reason would be to select what sort of caching is allowed for the
mapping, and whether write-combining is allowed, on architectures
(such as PowerPC) where those choices are made by bits in the PTEs.

Paul.
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