linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv8 00/12] Contiguous Memory Allocator

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Date:	Tue, 4 Jan 2011 17:59:01 +0100
From:	Michał Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>
To:	Johan MOSSBERG <johan.xx.mossberg@...ricsson.com>
Cc:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Kyungmin Park <kmpark@...radead.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...eaurora.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Ankita Garg <ankita@...ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-media@...r.kernel.org" <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv8 00/12] Contiguous Memory Allocator

> Russell King wrote:
>> Has anyone addressed my issue with it that this is wide-open for
>> abuse by allocating large chunks of memory, and then remapping
>> them in some way with different attributes, thereby violating the
>> ARM architecture specification?

2011/1/4 Johan MOSSBERG <johan.xx.mossberg@...ricsson.com>:
> Where in the specification (preferably ARMv7) can I find
> information about this? Is the problem that it is simply
> forbidden to map an address multiple times with different cache
> setting and if this is done the hardware might start failing? Or
> is the problem that having an address mapped cached means that
> speculative pre-fetch can read it into the cache at any time,
> possibly causing problems if an un-cached mapping exists?

IIRC both apply.
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