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In an embedded system, I want a big chunk of virtual memory in the
user process to be uncached. I've created a virtual device driver that
has this mmap method:
static int heap_mmap(struct file*filp, struct vm_area_struct*vma)
{
/* Mark this whole region uncached. The setup of this
additional flag, and the VM_RESERVED, are the whole point
of this module. This hopefully will cause all pages mapped
into this vma to be uncached. */
~ pgprot_val(vma->vm_page_prot) |= _PAGE_NO_CACHE;
~ vma->vm_flags |= VM_RESERVED;
~ vma->vm_ops = &heap_vm_ops;
~ heap_vm_open(vma);
~ return 0;
}
I then allocate in the nopage from get_free_page as usual. My
question is, "Is this doing what I think it is doing?"
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