Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 05:10:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 05:10:30 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:44719 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 05:10:29 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 02:00:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20020814.020015.83677829.davem@redhat.com> To: ralf@linux-mips.org Cc: imran.badr@cavium.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Cache coherency and snooping From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20020814101654.B14197@linux-mips.org> References: <20020814022958.B11645@linux-mips.org> <0aa401c2432e$04a95cc0$9e10a8c0@IMRANPC> <20020814101654.B14197@linux-mips.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 559 Lines: 14 From: Ralf Baechle Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 10:16:54 +0200 If the latter was your intension then ioremap_nocache() will work as intended. There are platforms btw where non-L2-cacheable access to RAM is impossible. It will hang the system in fact if one asked the cpu to do it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/