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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.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: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:56:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E135056.3060906@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110705174901.GA30531@srcf.ucam.org>

On 07/05/2011 10:49 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 09:46:18PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
>> But those tables wont be in regular RAM (they will be in ROM or in 
>> RAM marked non-RAM in a special way in the e820 tables).
>>
>> dmidecode certainly works on Fedora.
> 
> I've repeatedly wanted to dump EFI data that's flagged as E820_RESERVED 
> above the top of RAM and had to hack the kernel every time. I'm entirely 
> in favour of not having to hack the kernel every time.
> 

That definitely needs to be fixed.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-05 18:01 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
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 [this message]
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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