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Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2016 12:42:29 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@....com>, Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@...com>,
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Subject: Re: Overlapping ioremap() calls, set_memory_*() semantics
* Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@...nel.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@....com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2016-03-04 at 10:44 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >> * Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@...nel.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Could you outline a specific case where it's done intentionally - and the
> >> purpose behind that intention?
> >
> > The term "overlapping" is a bit misleading.
>
> To the driver author its overlapping, its overlapping on the physical address.
Guys please stop this crazy talk - when the same physical address is mapped to
multiple virtual addresses is called 'aliasing' - the term 'overlapping' is used
when memory ranges overlap ...
Thanks,
Ingo
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