Re: [PATCH v2 08/25] powerpc/8xx: Map IMMR area with 512k page at a fixed address

[Scott Wood]

On Fri, 2015-09-25 at 14:46 +0000, David Laight wrote:
> From: Scott Wood
> > Sent: 24 September 2015 21:14
> > > Isn't this a more general problem?
> > > 
> > > If there are multiple remap requests for the same physical page
> > > shouldn't the kernel be just increasing a reference count somewhere
> > > and returning address in the same virtual page?
> > > This should probably happen regardless of the address.
> > > I presume it must be done for cacheable mappings.
> > 
> > Why would you assume that?
> 
> Because 'really horrid (tm)' things happen on some cache
> architectures if you map the same physical address to
> multiple virtual addresses.

PPC is not such an architecture.

-Scott

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