Re: kmalloc

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>If that is indeed the case, then what _should_ happen on PPC is:
>
> - ioremap() does nothing:

on PPC, ioremap also sets the guard bit on the remapped pages, this is
quite important on PPC to avoid the CPU to pre-fetch datas for
instruction that may even not be executed at all. It also marks the pages
as non-cachable.

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