linux-kernel - Re: Memory trample when using /dev/mem

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Date:	Sat, 11 Oct 2014 11:04:30 +0200
From:	Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
To:	Hu Keping <hukeping@...wei.com>
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, sdu.liu@...wei.com,
	wangnan0@...wei.com, peifeiyue@...wei.com
Subject: Re: Memory trample when using /dev/mem

On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Hu Keping <hukeping@...wei.com> wrote:
> As there are many drivers using /dev/mem and we can not
> make sure that the different task will not trample on
> each others memory.Shall we add some printk to help locating the problem
> when error happened?

Actually no driver should use /dev/mem.
Please have a look at UIO.

-- 
Thanks,
//richard
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