consistent_free()

Dan Malek dan at embeddededge.com
Sat Jun 15 07:34:25 EST 2002


Tom Rini wrote:

> I'm not sure either.  __iounmap on ARM just is vfree() with the casts.

The issue is in consistent_free() they forcibly reset the Reserved
indicator on the pages.  I don't know why this is necessary.  It's
either due to the way they remap the pages during the allocation or
some change in the Linux VM that I haven't yet discovered :-)


	-- Dan


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