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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: create array based interface to change page attribute
    Thomas Hellström wrote:
    > Ouch, so we'll be needing an ioremap_wc(), I guess. We probably
    > shouldn't use the linear kernel map for this anyway, since that would
    > require a chipset flush for each ring commit. We can actually use
    > vmap() with a wc page protection for that, but an ioremap_wc() would
    > certainly save us a lot of trouble.

    please don't use vmap() as a hack for mapping IO memory when you should use ioremap_wc()....
    Lets get this thing right rather than finding whichever hack of the day
    happens to work with the implementation from yesterday.
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