RE: [patch 0/4] x86: PAT followup - Incremental changes and bug fixes

[Pallipadi, Venkatesh]

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>From: Andreas Herrmann3 [mailto:andreas.herrmann3@xxxxxxx] 
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>To: Pallipadi, Venkatesh
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>Subject: Re: [patch 0/4] x86: PAT followup - Incremental 
>changes and bug fixes
>
>On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 03:04:10PM -0800, Venki Pallipadi wrote:
>>
>> Below is another potential fix for the problem here. Going 
>through ACPI
>> ioremap usages, we found at one place the mapping is cached 
>for possible
>> optimization reason and not unmapped later. Patch below always unmaps
>> ioremap at this place in ACPICA.
>
>The patch does not fix the problem. The conflicting cache 
>attributes are
>still there.
>

Andreas,

Could you also try the patch Suresh Siddha sent out yesterday. That
covers the case where the attribute was not getting removed even after
unmap was called.

Thanks,
Venki
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