Andi Kleen <[email protected]> writes:
> On Tuesday 30 August 2005 17:20, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
>> Right. To the best of my understanding problem aliases are either
>> uncached/write-back or write-combine/write-back. I don't think
>> uncached/write-combine can cause problems. My basic reason for
>
> Well it can if one driver expects the mapping to be uncached and the
> other to be WC. The WC one might blast over the other one badly.
>
> Also the architecture defines all attribute conflicts to be undefined
> and it's better to not rely on undefined behaviour because that could
> break quite badly on a future microarchitecture.
Agreed. It is better.
My assessment was only to show that the immediate danger of data
corruption or problems isn't very high, even if someone does goof.
Eric
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