[PATCH v2] powerpc: warn on emulation of dcbz instruction in kernel mode

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Thu Aug 22 15:32:38 AEST 2024


On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 05:25:10AM +0000, LEROY Christophe wrote:
> > and this results in a call to dma_direct_allocation(), which has one
> > innocent looking memset():
> 
> 
> memset() can't be used on non-cached memory, memset_io() has to be used
> instead.

No, we use memset on uncached memory all the time.  Note that uncached
memory != __iomem memory, for which you DO have to use memset_io.



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