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Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] mm/highmem: make kmap cache coloring aware

From: Ralf Baechle <hidden>
Date: 2014-08-25 17:16:13
Also in: linux-arch, linux-mips, lkml

On Sat, Aug 02, 2014 at 05:11:37AM +0400, Max Filippov wrote:
this series adds mapping color control to the generic kmap code, allowing
architectures with aliasing VIPT cache to use high memory. There's also
use example of this new interface by xtensa.
I haven't actually ported this to MIPS but it certainly appears to be
the right framework to get highmem aliases handled on MIPS, too.

Though I still consider increasing PAGE_SIZE to 16k the preferable
solution because it will entirly do away with cache aliases.

Thanks,

  Ralf

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