Re: cache coherency in DMA and MMIO

[Samuel Thibault]

Da Zheng, le Sun 02 May 2010 20:36:28 +0800, a écrit :
> On 10-4-23 下午7:37, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Depends on how you use the mem device. It it ends up using pmap_enter()
> > to actually fill the page table, it will notice whether your physical
> > addresses are within RAM or above, see the code there.
> I think I find the code to do that.
>             if (machine_slot[cpu_number()].cpu_type >= CPU_TYPE_I486
>                 && pa >= phys_last_addr)
>                 template |= INTEL_PTE_NCACHE|INTEL_PTE_WTHRU;

Yes, that's it.

> The MMIO address of e1000 is at 0xd8920000 and 0xd8900000. I even insert print
> in the code to confirm that the MMIO address has been set non-cache.

Ok.

Samuel