Re: [RFC PATCH 4/6] acpi/hmat: Add helper functions to provide extended linear cache translation

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On Thu, 17 Oct 2024 16:46:35 +0000
"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > What does the I/O hole correspond to in the system?  
> 
> PCIe mmio mapped space. 32-bit devices must have addresses below 4G
> so X86 systems have a physical memory map that looks like:
> 
> 0 - 2G: RAM
> 2G-4G: MMIO
> 4G-end of memory: RAM
> end of memory-infinity: 64-bit MMIO
> 
> Depending on how much MMIO there is different systems put the
> dividing line at other addresses than 2G.

Ah, thanks. So this weird cache setup might be not quite linear
module N aliases as described in the ACPI spec (System vs host
physical addresses I guess).

Had wrong mental model :(

Ouch.


> 
> -Tony
> 





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