From: Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 17:06:03 +1000
> 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. Things work similarly on sparc64. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
