Re: [PATCH] Fix left over EFI cache mapping problems

[Andi Kleen]

Huang, Ying wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 09:48 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 12:48:06PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
>>> This patch has been tested on Intel x86 platform with EFI 32/64.
>> Can EFI_PAGE_SIZE ever be < 4k? If yes you would need to round up
>> first to linux page size before shifting.
> 
> Yes. It is needed. And md->virt_addr should be processed as follow:
> 
> md->virt_addr & PAGE_MASK
> 
> before fed into set_memory_*.

If you do that you also need to add the old offset into the page
to the size.

I just mention it because ioremap_change_attr() did that wrong
before my patch yesterday :)

-Andi

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