linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 2.6.19 1/1] fbdev,mm: hecuba/E-Ink fbdev driver v2

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Date:	Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:38:26 +0100
From:	"Franck Bui-Huu" <vagabon.xyz@...il.com>
To:	"Jaya Kumar" <jayakumar.lkml@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-fbdev-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 2.6.19 1/1] fbdev,mm: hecuba/E-Ink fbdev driver v2

On 12/12/06, Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@...il.com> wrote:
> I think that PTEs set up by vmalloc are marked cacheable and via the
> above nopage end up as cacheable. I'm not doing DMA. So the accesses
> are through the cache so I don't think cache aliasing is an issue for
> this case. Please let me know if I misunderstood.
>

This issue is not related to DMA: there are 2 different virtual
addresses that can map the same physical address. If these 2 virtual
addresses use 2 different data cache entries then you have a cache
aliasing issue. In your case the 2 different virtual addresses are (1)
the one got by the kernel (returned by vmalloc) (2) the one got by the
application (returned by mmap).

Hope that helps.
-- 
               Franck
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