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| author | Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> | 2008-10-22 19:55:31 -0700 |
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| committer | Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> | 2008-12-01 12:24:34 -0800 |
| commit | 6c043671985b9c5402d099d5b8fa4f4a8dfea9af (patch) | |
| tree | 15f96b610721bd813a750b5846c376739b3e39b8 /Documentation | |
| parent | 99a1c443834442b10a966846e0c20564a816294e (diff) | |
resource: allow MMIO exclusivity for device drivers
Device drivers that use pci_request_regions() (and similar APIs) have a
reasonable expectation that they are the only ones accessing their device.
As part of the e1000e hunt, we were afraid that some userland (X or some
bootsplash stuff) was mapping the MMIO region that the driver thought it
had exclusively via /dev/mem or via various sysfs resource mappings.
This patch adds the option for device drivers to cause their reserved
regions to the "banned from /dev/mem use" list, so now both kernel memory
and device-exclusive MMIO regions are banned.
NOTE: This is only active when CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM is set.
In addition to the config option, a kernel parameter iomem=relaxed is
provided for the cases where developers want to diagnose, in the field,
drivers issues from userspace.
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index e0f346d201ed..c5a38901313b 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -898,6 +898,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file inttest= [IA64] + iomem= Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory + strict regions from userspace. + relaxed + iommu= [x86] off force |