Re: ioremap_nocache problem?

Timur Tabi (ttabi@interactivesi.com)
Thu, 25 Jan 2001 10:49:50 -0600

** Reply to message from Roman Zippel <roman@augan.com> on Thu, 25 Jan 2001
17:44:51 +0100

> set_bit(PG_reserved, &page->flags);
> ioremap();
> ...
> iounmap();
> clear_bit(PG_reserved, &page->flags);

The problem with this is that between the ioremap and iounmap, the page is
reserved. What happens if that page belongs to some disk buffer or user
process, and some other process tries to free it. Won't that cause a problem?

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