linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] proc/kcore: Do not map unaccepted memory

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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>
Cc:     Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@...il.com>,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
        Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
        Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-coco@...ts.linux.dev, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
        kexec@...ts.infradead.org
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?