Re: CVS commit: src/sys/uvm

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 03:19:37PM +0000, Chris Gilbert wrote:
> We document the pmap API as requiring it. Pmap can defer doing work to 
> finalize the changes in hardware until pmap_update is called, so not doing 
> so could cause issues.

We require it in the sense that the page might still be mapped. For
/dev/mem and friends that is ok -- we don't care if the page is still
accessible. In general that might not be desirable though.

Joerg