Re: [PATCH 34/49] gma500: the GEM and GTT code is deviceindependant

From: Alan Cox
Date: Mon Jul 11 2011 - 12:23:20 EST


> Your <4GB pages won't get swapped out while they're pinned. But can
> it happen that they'd be unpinned, swapped out, swapped back in >4GB
> pages, then cause trouble for you when needed again?

It does look that way, in which case that will eventually need fixing. At
the moment you can't put enough memory into a device using these chips
but that won't always be true I imagine.

Alan
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