Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote:
>
> I did start out on eliminating PageReserved a few months ago,
> but was persuaded to delay that until 2.7. When that's done,
> you will be able to mmap /dev/mem properly.
I think we can almost do it now. Just a few things like get_user_pages(),
ptrace and core dumping may need to be taught about VM_RESERVED.
Or we could simply change mmap_mem() to set VM_IO if any of the pages aren't
valid. That's probably an accurate reflection of what the app is trying to
do, too.
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