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Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 10:27:39 +0100 From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFC: banning device driver reserved resources from /dev/mem > This patch adds, to the existing config option to restrict /dev/mem, the > reserved regions to the "banned from /dev/mem use" list, so now > both kernel memory and device-exclusive MMIO regions are banned. This breaks a whole class of diagnostic and debug tools which quite intentionally dump the MMIO register space of devices that are live. Plus it doesn't actually work - if I have /dev/mem open and mmapped you don't pull the pages from under me.... The problem with the way this is going is the more you take from /dev/mem the sooner someone is forced to add /dev/mem-proper which undoes it all again so they can get work done. It's certainly a useful debug aid to know about such things but I don't believe it's something you should ban. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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