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SubjectRe: EFAULT reading /dev/mem... - broken x86info
Dave Jones wrote:

>On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 05:50:25PM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> > It breaks either your app or your AGP driver - what's simpler to fix?
> > I'm biased, because if you update the AGP driver, then I must figure out
> > how to fix DEBUG_PAGEALLOC 8-)
>
>I'm not convinced changing agpgart is worth the pain.
>The only userspace app that actually grovels through the aperture
>in this way is the agpgart test code, so this shouldn't be an issue.
>
>
You misunderstood my objection:
we cannot assume that every page is mapped in the kernel linear mapping:
- with DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, lots of pages are removed from the linear mapping
- even without it, all pages that are used for AGP are removed from the
mapping.

Thus if something fails with DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, it will fail sometimes
with AGP gart as well.

>I thought the DEBUG_PAGEALLOC stuff just unmapped pages that had been
>kmalloc'd ? The area of memory we're trying to read those mptables from
>shouldn't be unmapped in the first place should they ? Confused.
>
>
DEBUG_PAGEALLOC unmaps pages on kmem_cache_free and __free_pages(). The
pages are mapped again during get_free_pages and kmem_cache_alloc.

0x86000 looks like a normal page - what guarantees that it's not used by
the kernel?

--
Manfred

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