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Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2023 08:43:07 -0700
From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
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Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@...il.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] proc/kcore: Do not map unaccepted memory
On 9/6/23 00:39, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> Do not map unaccepted memory because it can cause the guest to fail.
>
> For /proc/kcore, which is read-only and does not support mmap, this means a
> read of unaccepted memory will return zeros.
I'm confused by this changelog and subject.
What is getting "mapped" here if mmap() isn't in play?
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