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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm/init_32.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/init_32.c | 19 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c index 08aa1878fad..baf7c4f643c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c @@ -227,6 +227,25 @@ static inline int page_kills_ppro(unsigned long pagenr) return 0; } +/* + * devmem_is_allowed() checks to see if /dev/mem access to a certain address + * is valid. The argument is a physical page number. + * + * + * On x86, access has to be given to the first megabyte of ram because that area + * contains bios code and data regions used by X and dosemu and similar apps. + * Access has to be given to non-kernel-ram areas as well, these contain the PCI + * mmio resources as well as potential bios/acpi data regions. + */ +int devmem_is_allowed(unsigned long pagenr) +{ + if (pagenr <= 256) + return 1; + if (!page_is_ram(pagenr)) + return 1; + return 0; +} + #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM pte_t *kmap_pte; pgprot_t kmap_prot; |