Re: EFAULT reading /dev/mem... - broken x86info

[Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>]

On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 05:27:37PM +0100, Petr Vandrovec wrote:

 > After some tweaking around I found that I cannot read some pages from /dev/mem -
 > - I get -EFAULT on them. x86info run to the 0x86000 and 0x87000 pages, as it
 > scans 0x80000-0x8FFFF range for mptable.
 > 
 > After some thinking I believe that CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
 > is responsible for this problem. Should x86info (and other programs which
 > attempt to scan physical memory) cope with this inability to read /dev/mem, or
 > should be kernel fixed so /dev/mem really accesses physical memory and not kernel's
 > view of it? Or should I simple stop using CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC?

I don't really have much insight into the behind the scenes going on's of
DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, so I don't know if your suggestion has merit or not.
Maybe Manfred can shed some insight?  This does seem to be a regression IMO
(Though I am somewhat biased as this breaks my app 8-)

		Dave