From: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] Enhance /dev/mem to allow read/write of arbitrary physical addresses
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:05:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201106291106.00070.ptesarik@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110617093032.GA19235@elte.hu>
Dne Pá 17. června 2011 11:30:32 Ingo Molnar napsal(a):
> * Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz> wrote:
> > This patch series enhances /dev/mem, so that read and write is
> > possible at any address. The patchset includes actual
> > implementation for x86.
>
> This series lacks a description of why this is desired.
>[...]
>
> Are you aware of any legitimate usecases?
Looking back at the mail tread, I'd say there are people who have legitimate
usecases. However, this may not be the most important question. At the moment,
the /dev/mem interface is broken (it doesn't implement the specification
correctly), and my patchset fixes it.
If there are no technical objections, I'd like to ask for an Acked-by from all
involved people.
@Ingo: you can also send a patchset that rips off the /dev/mem driver
completely if you believe that would get through. I'm completely fine with
that, because then the /dev/crash driver will no longer be a semi-broken re-
implementation of an existing in-kernel driver, so I'll be able to post it as
a new driver.
But please make a decision either way.
Petr Tesarik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-29 9:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-17 8:38 [PATCH 00/10] Enhance /dev/mem to allow read/write of arbitrary physical addresses Petr Tesarik
2011-06-17 8:43 ` [PATCH 01/10] Return EOF on out-of-bounds read from /dev/mem Petr Tesarik
2011-06-17 8:44 ` [PATCH 02/10] (un)xlate_dev_mem_ptr: use phys_addr_t for the @phys parameter Petr Tesarik
2011-06-17 8:45 ` [PATCH 03/10] x86: translate highmem /dev/mem pointers Petr Tesarik
2011-06-17 8:45 ` [PATCH 04/10] ia64: change xlate_dev_mem_ptr's argument to phys_addr_t Petr Tesarik
2011-06-17 8:45 ` [PATCH 05/10] valid_phys_addr_range: use phys_addr_t for the @addr parameter Petr Tesarik
2011-06-17 8:46 ` [PATCH 06/10] sh: change valid_phys_addr_range's @addr param to phys_addr_t Petr Tesarik
2011-06-17 8:46 ` [PATCH 07/10] arm: " Petr Tesarik
2011-06-17 8:47 ` [PATCH 08/10] ia64: " Petr Tesarik
2011-06-17 8:48 ` [PATCH 09/10] x86: provide arch-specific valid_phys_addr_range() Petr Tesarik
2011-06-17 8:48 ` [PATCH 10/10] Allow reading/writing all memory through /dev/mem Petr Tesarik
2011-06-17 9:30 ` [PATCH 00/10] Enhance /dev/mem to allow read/write of arbitrary physical addresses Ingo Molnar
2011-06-17 9:41 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-06-17 9:55 ` Petr Tesarik
2011-06-20 2:42 ` Américo Wang
2011-06-27 7:46 ` Petr Tesarik
2011-06-19 23:02 ` Ryan Mallon
2011-06-19 23:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-20 7:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-20 15:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-20 16:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-20 16:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-21 6:55 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2011-06-20 0:42 ` Matthew Wilcox
2011-06-20 0:46 ` Ryan Mallon
2011-06-20 0:52 ` Matthew Wilcox
2011-06-20 1:02 ` Ryan Mallon
2011-06-20 7:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-06-20 8:03 ` Ryan Mallon
2011-06-20 17:10 ` Ray Lee
2011-06-29 9:05 ` Petr Tesarik [this message]
2011-07-01 12:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-07-01 13:43 ` Petr Tesarik
2011-07-01 13:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-01 14:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-07-01 14:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-01 14:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-07-01 14:54 ` Petr Tesarik
2011-07-01 15:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-07-01 16:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-01 16:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-07-01 19:34 ` Petr Tesarik
2011-07-01 19:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-07-01 20:44 ` Petr Tesarik
2011-07-03 19:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-07-05 17:49 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-07-05 17:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-05 22:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-06-20 13:24 Dave Anderson
2011-06-21 2:52 ` Cong Wang
2011-06-21 13:03 ` Dave Anderson
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