Re: Cache incoherencies

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 27 Aug 1999 18:37:45 +0100 (BST)

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> If we would start out with an uncacheable region flagged as such, gfp
> can return uncacheable pages just like it can return DMA-able pages.

Not all CPU's have cachability handled this way. A simple example is mips
where the address used determines the cachability

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