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From: "Imran Badr" <imran.badr@cavium.com>
To: "'Ralf Baechle'" <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: "'Alan Cox'" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Cache coherency and snooping
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 18:00:43 -0700
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Hi,

Please advise if following sequence of operations are going to help:

alloc memory
reserve the page
flush every cache
call ioremap_nocache


Thanks,
Imran.



-----Original Message-----
From: Ralf Baechle [mailto:ralf@linux-mips.org]
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 5:30 PM
To: Imran Badr
Cc: 'Alan Cox'; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Cache coherency and snooping


On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 05:19:56PM -0700, Imran Badr wrote:

> What if I allocate memory at boot-time using alloc_bootmem*(..)?

That wouldn't change the picture either.

  Ralf

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