Re: [PATCH v2] x86: PAT: Documentation: rewrite "MTRR effects on PAT / non-PAT systems"
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Date: 2016-03-05 11:53:07
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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Date: 2016-03-05 11:53:07
Also in:
linux-arch, linux-fbdev
* Luis R. Rodriguez [off-list ref] wrote:
The current documentation refers to using set_memory_wc() as a possible hole strategy when you have overlapping ioremap() regions,
The whole explanation should talk about virtual aliases over the same physical address, not some 'overlapping regions'. I see where this talk about 'overlap' comes: the memtype rbtree in arch/x86/mm/pat_rbtree.c indeed has memtype ranges that may overlap on the physical side. But it is highly confusing to call this 'overlapping' on the driver API documentation level without making it really clear what it's about. Thanks, Ingo