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author | Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> | 2006-01-08 01:04:13 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-01-08 20:14:02 -0800 |
commit | 80851ef2a5a404e6054211ca96ecd5ac4b06d297 (patch) | |
tree | dcacd2a475adc28c540b6012b58f1af9783778c1 /include/asm-ia64 | |
parent | 44ac8413901167589226abf824d994aa57e4fd28 (diff) | |
download | linux-80851ef2a5a404e6054211ca96ecd5ac4b06d297.tar.gz |
[PATCH] /dev/mem: validate mmap requests
Add a hook so architectures can validate /dev/mem mmap requests. This is analogous to validation we already perform in the read/write paths. The identity mapping scheme used on ia64 requires that each 16MB or 64MB granule be accessed with exactly one attribute (write-back or uncacheable). This avoids "attribute aliasing", which can cause a machine check. Sample problem scenario: - Machine supports VGA, so it has uncacheable (UC) MMIO at 640K-768K - efi_memmap_init() discards any write-back (WB) memory in the first granule - Application (e.g., "hwinfo") mmaps /dev/mem, offset 0 - hwinfo receives UC mapping (the default, since memmap says "no WB here") - Machine check abort (on chipsets that don't support UC access to WB memory, e.g., sx1000) In the scenario above, the only choices are - Use WB for hwinfo mmap. Can't do this because it causes attribute aliasing with the UC mapping for the VGA MMIO space. - Use UC for hwinfo mmap. Can't do this because the chipset may not support UC for that region. - Disallow the hwinfo mmap with -EINVAL. That's what this patch does. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-ia64')
-rw-r--r-- | include/asm-ia64/io.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-ia64/io.h b/include/asm-ia64/io.h index cf772a67f858..b64fdb985494 100644 --- a/include/asm-ia64/io.h +++ b/include/asm-ia64/io.h @@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ phys_to_virt (unsigned long address) #define ARCH_HAS_VALID_PHYS_ADDR_RANGE extern int valid_phys_addr_range (unsigned long addr, size_t *count); /* efi.c */ +extern int valid_mmap_phys_addr_range (unsigned long addr, size_t *count); /* * The following two macros are deprecated and scheduled for removal. |