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SubjectRE: [patch 02/11] PAT x86: Map only usable memory in x86_64 identity map and kernel text
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Linus Torvalds [mailto:torvalds@linux-foundation.org]
>Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 2:15 PM
>To: Pallipadi, Venkatesh
>Cc: ak@muc.de; ebiederm@xmission.com; rdreier@cisco.com;
>gregkh@suse.de; airlied@skynet.ie; davej@redhat.com;
>mingo@elte.hu; tglx@linutronix.de; akpm@linux-foundation.org;
>arjan@infradead.org; Barnes, Jesse; davem@davemloft.net;
>linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Siddha, Suresh B
>Subject: RE: [patch 02/11] PAT x86: Map only usable memory in
>x86_64 identity map and kernel text
>
>
>
>On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
>>
>> Yes. I had those pages not mapped at all earlier. The reason
>I switched
>> to zero page is to continue support cases like:
>> BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009cc00 (usable)
>> BIOS-e820: 000000000009cc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
>> BIOS-e820: 00000000000cc000 - 00000000000d0000 (reserved)
>> BIOS-e820: 00000000000e4000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
>> BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000cff60000 (usable)
>>
>> In this case if some one does a dd of /dev/mem before they
>can read the
>> contents of usable memory in 0x100000-0xcff60000 range.
>
>Well, I think that /dev/mem should simply give them the right
>info. That's
>what people use /dev/mem for - doing things like reading BIOS
>images etc.
>
>So returning *either* a zero page *or* stopping at the first
>hole is both
>equally wrong.
>

I was not fully clear in my earlier email. Mapping /dev/mem would still
work with our changes. As they go through proper map interface. It is
the dd of dev mem which does the read that has the problem. I was
wondering of apps using dd.

Thanks,
Venki


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