Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Nov 2015 17:28:54 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] restrict /dev/mem to idle io memory ranges | From | Dan Williams <> |
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On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > On Tue, 24 Nov 2015 16:34:19 -0800 Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote: > >> > IOW, a very good description of the problem-being-solved would help out >> > a lot here... >> >> I'll fold the eventual result of this discussion into the changelog if >> I can convince you it's worth moving forward. > > I'm easily convinced ;) Please let's get all the info into the right > place, make sure it answers the thus-far-asked questions (at least) and > we'll take it from there. > > And please do have a think about switching as much as possible over to > runtime-configurability. Because "please echo foo > /proc" is a heck > of a lot nicer than "please reboot with iomem=" which is a heck of a lot > nicer than "please ask vendor for a new kernel".
Actually, we already have runtime configuration. For example, if you want to muck with pmem via /dev/mem, just do this first:
echo namespace0.0 > /sys/bus/nd/drivers/nd_pmem/unbind
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