Re: ååï [PATCH] arch:unicore32:mm: add devmem_is_allowed() to support STRICT_DEVMEM

From: Chen Gang
Date: Mon Apr 14 2014 - 20:14:59 EST



We got no-reply almost a week, so we can assume "can put the code into
"asm/io.h" as static inline function".

I will/should send patch v2 for it.

Thanks.

On 04/08/2014 12:54 PM, Chen Gang wrote:
>
> On 04/08/2014 11:20 AM, çéæ wrote:
>> I'd like to put the code into asm/io.h, and make it static.
>>
>
> It sounds OK to me, but I don't know why the other architectures (e.g.
> arm, powerpc, x86) put them into ".c".
>
> iomem_is_exclusive() and page_is_ram() are all extern functions, so for
> me, devmem_is_allowed() is shot enough to be as inline function.
>
>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM
>>> +/*
>>> + * devmem_is_allowed() checks to see if /dev/mem access to a certain
>>> + * address is valid. The argument is a physical page number.
>>> + * We mimic x86 here by disallowing access to system RAM as well as
>>> + * device-exclusive MMIO regions. This effectively disable read()/write()
>>> + * on /dev/mem.
>>> + */
>>> +static int devmem_is_allowed(unsigned long pfn)
>
> How about "static inline int devmem_is_allowed(unsigned long pfn)"?
>
>>> +{
>>> + if (iomem_is_exclusive(pfn << PAGE_SHIFT))
>>> + return 0;
>>> + if (!page_is_ram(pfn))
>>> + return 1;
>>> + return 0;
>>> +}
>>> +#endif /* CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM */
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Acked-by: Xuetao Guan <gxt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>
> [...]
>
> Thanks.
>

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