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

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Oct 18 2011 - 06:46:35 EST


> What troubles could you see for swap+uncached (or more likely,
> writecombine) pages?

That should never occur. I would argue the driver is responsible for
putting the cache state of the page back sensibly before it unpins it.
That's a simple enough rule and one I think all the drivers follow at
this point.

Alan
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