On Thursday, December 13, 2007 3:55 pm [email protected] wrote:
> Forward port of coherent-mmap.patch and sysfs-bin-ioctl.patch to x86 tree.
>
> TBD: Do we need the ioctl interface to sysfs or get the type attribute
> through a different sysfs file. And then actually specify the attribute
> while doing pci_mmap_page_range ;-)
>
> And when this interface is in place, X server has to use this interface for
> WC mapping.
I remember talking with people about using madvise and/or mmap flags to set
the attributes correctly, but I don't remember whether it was a good idea or
not...
The advantage of a specific post-mmap call is that it would make setting the
attribute types a little easier, so either ioctl or madvise seems preferable
to mmapping over and over with different flags until you get the mapping.
Jesse
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