linux-kernel - Re: Arch specific mmap attributes

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Date:	Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:58:00 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Arch specific mmap attributes

On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 00:03 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > I'm not against changing kernel internal. I only disagree mmu
> > attribute fashion will be become used widely.
> 
> Desktop already uses similar features via PCI mmap
> attributes and such, not to mention MSR settings on
> x86.

This is a very good point, we've had all sort of trouble hacking that in
for PCI mmap, between trying to get write combine in, which we got
on /proc via a tweak I think we never got over to sysfs, and the ability
to control cachability, for which we used to have O_SYNC hacks
in /dev/mem, I think there is room for some nice and clean set of
attributes here.

Cheers,
Ben.

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