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From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Keep memory type same on DEVMEM Page-Fault
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On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 14:22:36 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 19 Mar 2023 11:37:50 +0800 "buddy.zhang" <buddy.zhang@biscuitos.cn> wrote:
> 
> > On X86 architecture, supports memory type on Page-table, such as
> > PTE is PAT/PCD/PWD, which can setup up Memory Type as WC/WB/WT/UC etc.
> > Then, Virtual address from userspace or kernel space can map to
> > same physical page, if each page table has different memory type,
> > then it's confused to have more memory type for same physical page.
> 
> Thanks.  Nobody has worked on this code for a long time.  I'll cc a few
> folks who may be able to comment.
> 

Well that didn't go very well.

Buddy, can you please explain what are the user-visible effects of the
bug?  Does the kernel crash?  Memory corruption, etc?  Thanks.