Re: mmap'ed memory cacheable or uncheable

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On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 08:26:59PM -0700, Teresa Tao wrote:

> I got a question regarding the mmap'ed memory. Is the mmap'ed memory
> cacheable or uncheable? My driver just use the remap_page_range to map
> a reserved physical memory.

Mmap(2) creates cachable mappings for everything below the highest memory
address and uncached above that.  That's a somewhat naive mechanism
which fails a few systems but somehow nobody did complain so far ...

  Ralf


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