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[linux-2.6.git] / arch / x86_64 / mm / init.c

diff --git a/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c b/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c
index f393e33..a51772d 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c
@@ -396,6 +396,26 @@ static inline int page_is_ram (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 x86-64, 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;
+}
+
+
 static struct kcore_list kcore_mem, kcore_vmalloc, kcore_kernel, kcore_modules,
                         kcore_vsyscall;