Re: [PATCH] - Mapping ACPI tables as CACHED

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Dec 15 2010 - 01:29:14 EST


On 12/14/2010 10:17 PM, Milton Miller wrote:
>
> after digging back through the thread for the patch, it would seem
> that both __acpi_map_table_permanent and e820_all_mapped would
> need to be moved from init to normal text, as this is replacing
> the non-init path. I'll let the maintainers decide if that is the
> right solution (vs unconditonally mapping cached, or something else).
>

Unconditionally map cached; filtering should be done in the PAT layer if
necessary.

-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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