Hi Guys,
Sorry for starting the long old thread again, but i have to start it as i was a bit confused. :(
We know that we can't have multiple mappings with different attributes to the same physical memory on ARMv6+ machines due to speculative prefetch.
So, we have following kind of mappings in kernel now (please correct me if i am wrong): - Low Mem: Mapped at boot time to - Normal Cacheable - Bufferable - ioremap() - blocked on Low Mem, so that we don't create Device type mapping to same mem - dma_alloc_coherent() and others: - Without DMA_MEM_BUFFERABLE selected - gives strongly ordered mem (i.e. Non cacheable - Non Bufferable) - With DMA_MEM_BUFFERABLE selected - gives Normal - Non cacheable - Bufferable mapping - Maybe some other too...
I have a doubt with the last mapping mentioned above. We have two mappings possibly to the same physical memory, with different attributes: One is Cacheable and other one is not.
Is this allowed by ARM? Because the patch in which Russell blocked ioremap on Low Mem, he clearly mentioned that these attributes are also important and they should be same.
Sorry if i am missing something :)
-- viresh