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Date:	Thu, 18 Sep 2014 05:33:02 +0530
From:	Ankit Jindal <ankit.jindal@...aro.org>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"patches@....com" <patches@....com>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	"Hans J. Koch" <hjk@...sjkoch.de>,
	Tushar Jagad <tushar.jagad@...aro.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] Documentation: Update documentation for UIO_MEM_PHYS_CACHE

On 15 September 2014 01:31, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@....linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 03:26:56PM +0530, Ankit Jindal wrote:
>> This patch update UIO documentation for new mem region
>> type UIO_MEM_PHYS_CACHE.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ankit Jindal <ankit.jindal@...aro.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Tushar Jagad <tushar.jagad@...aro.org>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl |    3 ++-
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl
>> index bbe9c1f..49e47d4 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl
>> +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl
>> @@ -530,7 +530,8 @@ the memory region, it will show up in the corresponding sysfs node.
>>  <varname>UIO_MEM_PHYS</varname> if you you have physical memory on your
>>  card to be mapped. Use <varname>UIO_MEM_LOGICAL</varname> for logical
>>  memory (e.g. allocated with <function>kmalloc()</function>). There's also
>> -<varname>UIO_MEM_VIRTUAL</varname> for virtual memory.
>> +<varname>UIO_MEM_VIRTUAL</varname> for virtual memory and
>> +<varname>UIO_MEM_PHYS_CACHE</varname> for physical cacheable memory.
>
> When I read this, I wondered what "physical cacheable memory" was.
> Then I found that what you're doing with this is mapping physical
> memory into userspace with cacheable attributes.
>
> So, to avoid confusion, this should be "for physical memory, which
> will be cacheably mapped" or similar.

Thanks, will frame better in next version.

Thanks,
Ankit
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