On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 03:02:01PM -0500, Jes Sorensen wrote: > >>>>> "Robin" == Robin Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Robin> Would anybody have a concern with marking those cache lines as > Robin> processor uncached only? Would there ever be a time that we > Robin> would expect _ANY_ type of cached reference when the granule is > Robin> being used for uncached that would be an acceptable use? > > Robin, > > I don't see any valid such cases. In principle one has to go through > the reverse procedure to convert something from uncached to cached and > since we don't do that in any place I don't see any valid reason to do > so. Anyone doing it in kdb etc. would be in for what they are getting, > so I don't think thats valid concern.
I guess I didn't follow you. Are you saying you would have no concern with changing the memory protections to prevent that type of reference? Thanks, Robin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
