[illumos-Developer] Webrev #534: DMA KVA cache attributes incorrect

[Garrett D'Amore]

On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 11:31 -0400, Dan McDonald wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 08:29:10AM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> > Sadly, on SPARC it isn't right.  On SPARC platforms it is impossible to
> > allocate uncached memory, because the SPARC platform guarantees cache
> > consistency.
> > 
> > I *think* this will be harmless because the flags don't appear to be
> > used on SPARC, although I'm not terribly happy about that.  So I'd at a
> > minimum add a comment above indicating that the flags are not used on
> > SPARC.
> 
> Can/should you #ifndef SPARC the changes, then?

That would be one possible solution.

	- Garrett

> 
> Dan
> 
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