On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 08:23:26PM +0100, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 01:42:33PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 01:21:48PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > The current documentation refers to using set_memor_wc() as a > > > possible hole strategy when you have overlapping ioremap() regions, > > > that's incorrect as set_memory_*() helpers can only be used on RAM, > > > not IO memory. This fixes that, and updates the documention to > > > *strongly* discourage overlapping ioremap() memory uses, but also > > > documents a possible solution should there really be no other > > > option. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Given an Acked-by or better from the guys on the TO line, I would be > > happy to queue it. > > I'll need to respin as fortunately I ended up actually not needing > to do an overlap on atyfb, and instead just let MTRR be effective > over an entire range that included both write-combining and strong > UC attributes. It was a bit fuzzy as this while ago, and since its > also obscure, its more reason to document now. > > Will spin a v2. Sounds good! Thanx, Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
