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authorPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>2009-03-04 11:46:40 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-03-04 11:40:04 +0100
commit540aca06b737cc38965b52eeceefba3d24376461 (patch)
tree0231f664033a2f3ad7632e4030e54a6b7a848447 /arch/x86/mm/init.c
parent8b0e5860cb099d7958d13b00ffbc35ad02735700 (diff)
x86: move devmem_is_allowed() to common mm/init.c
Impact: cleanup The function is identical on 32-bit and 64-bit configurations so move it to the common mm/init.c file. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> LKML-Reference: <1236160001.29024.29.camel@penberg-laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm/init.c')
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1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init.c b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
index ce6a722587d8..f89df52683c5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
@@ -1,9 +1,33 @@
+#include <linux/ioport.h>
#include <linux/swap.h>
+
#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
#include <asm/page.h>
+#include <asm/page_types.h>
#include <asm/sections.h>
#include <asm/system.h>
+/*
+ * 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 (iomem_is_exclusive(pagenr << PAGE_SHIFT))
+ return 0;
+ if (!page_is_ram(pagenr))
+ return 1;
+ return 0;
+}
+
void free_init_pages(char *what, unsigned long begin, unsigned long end)
{
unsigned long addr = begin;