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SubjectRe: [PATCH] UIO: only call pgprot_noncached if defined
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 12:42, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 12:33:37PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:33, Greg KH wrote:
>> > On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 12:36:11PM +0100, Hans J. Koch wrote:
>> >> There seem to be archs that cannot easily implement a sensible
>> >> pgprot_noncached() function, so we should merge this patch. UIO doesn't
>> >> compile on these archs right now.
>> >
>> > No, we should fix those arches to have that function at least NULLed
>> > out. Isn't there only one, Blackfin? Putting #ifdefs in .c files is
>> > not something we really want to do if at all possible.
>>
>> that was my question. this function isnt documented. if the hardware
>> doesnt support it, is the right thing really for the arch to lie to
>> drivers and not actually give back cached settings even though it
>> asked for non-cached ?
>
> Probably not, it sounds like the arch needs to be fixed :)

i'd agree, but we're dealing with reality here: we're talking no-mmu
and we can not do caching on a per-page basis while maintaining
anything resembling usable performance.
-mike


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