Re: [RFC PATCH 2/5] soc/fsl/qbman: Use shared-dma-pool for QMan private memory allocations

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Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi Roy,
>
> On 29/03/17 22:13, Roy Pledge wrote:
>> Use the shared-memory-pool mechanism for frame queue descriptor and
>> packed frame descriptor record area allocations.
>
> Thanks for persevering with this - in my opinion it's now looking like
> it was worth the effort :)
>
> AFAICS the ioremap_wc() that this leads to does appear to give back
> something non-cacheable on PPC (assuming "pgprot_noncached_wc" isn't
> horrendously misnamed), and "no-map" should rule out any cacheable
> linear map alias existing, so it would seem that this approach should
> avert Scott's concerns about attribute mismatches.

How does 'no-map' translate into something being excluded from the
linear mapping?

cheers
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