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Commit 8a3e3d31 authored by sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com's avatar sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com Committed by Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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powerpc: Punch a hole in /dev/mem for librtas



With CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM=y, user space cannot read any part of /dev/mem.
Since this breaks librtas, punch a hole in /dev/mem to allow access to the
rmo_buffer that librtas needs.

Anton Blanchard reported the problem and helped with the fix.

A quick test for this patch:

       # cat /proc/rtas/rmo_buffer
       000000000f190000 10000

       # python -c "print 0x000000000f190000 / 0x10000"
       3865

       # dd if=/dev/mem of=/tmp/foo count=1 bs=64k skip=3865
       1+0 records in
       1+0 records out
       65536 bytes (66 kB) copied, 0.000205235 s, 319 MB/s

       # dd if=/dev/mem of=/tmp/foo
       dd: reading `/dev/mem': Operation not permitted
       0+0 records in
       0+0 records out
       0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.00022519 s, 0.0 kB/s

Signed-off-by: default avatarSukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
parent 11eab297
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