allocating uncachable memory

[Ronald Wahl]

On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Ronald Wahl wrote:

>
> On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Dan Malek wrote:
>
> > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >
> > > ... Most PPC machines out there (all PCI PPC machines) are,
> > > AFAIK, cache coherents. PPC NuBus powermacs are not.
> >
> >
> > The MPC8xx and IBM 4xx systems can have PCI options but are not
> > cache coherent.  PCI masters are still challenging (if you can actually
> > get them to work :-).
>
> It's an MPC860 together with an PLX 9054 PCI Controller. The effect is
> that most of the data is correct but sometimes the MPC860 seems to get
> wrong data. Looks like more than a race condition than a cache side
> effect, but I'm not sure.

After some further tests I found out that it is the data cache of the
MPC860. If I switch the data cache off in head.S all goes well. So my
question again: How can I get an alias mapping (with _PAGE_NO_CACHE |
_PAGE_GUARDED) of some already mapped pages.
...or can I mark pages as non-cacheable w/o alias mapping?

thx,
ron


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