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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 02/21] acpi: fix acpi_os_ioremap for arm64
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On 02/04/2015 10:08 AM, Mark Salter wrote:
> acpi_os_remap() is used to map ACPI tables. These tables may be in ram
> which are already included in the kernel's linear RAM mapping. So we
> need ioremap_cache to avoid two mappings to the same physical page
> having different caching attributes.

Would it be possible to modify ioremap() so that it can tell whether the 
memory is already mapped in some way, and then use a compatible remapping?

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