From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>,
Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: unable to mmap /dev/kmem
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 08:57:55 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200701200857.55407.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701191539070.4009@blonde.wat.veritas.com>
> But personally I'd prefer it to remain.
Similar. I also got some tools who use it to read kernel variables
and doing the V->P conversion in user space would be tedious
and unreliable (e.g. for vmalloc)
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-19 22:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-18 16:47 unable to mmap /dev/kmem Nadia Derbey
2007-01-18 18:04 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-01-19 6:26 ` Nadia Derbey
2007-01-19 9:10 ` Nadia Derbey
2007-01-19 16:33 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-01-19 16:57 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-01-19 17:12 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-01-19 17:27 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-01-19 17:52 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-01-19 21:57 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-01-19 11:31 ` Franck Bui-Huu
2007-01-19 17:02 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-01-20 17:19 ` Franck Bui-Huu
2007-01-21 9:56 ` Hugh Dickins
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