Re: [PATCH] ACPI: use ioremap_cache()

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Tue Dec 28 2010 - 15:12:30 EST


On 12/27/2010 09:02 PM, Shaohua Li wrote:
>>
>> For x86, that is handled by the MTRRs;
> does it cause any problem if the pat and mtrr doesn't match?
>

No, the interaction rules between PAT and MTRR are well-defined; see the
SDM 3A. If they weren't we would have huge problems with SMM.

-hpa

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