From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Martin Diehl <lists@mdiehl.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm2: devmem_is_allowed
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 08:40:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1096008029.2612.37.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0409240030210.14340-100000@notebook.home.mdiehl.de>
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On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 00:37, Martin Diehl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after switching from working 2.6.9-rc2 to -mm2, X refused to start on my
> testbox. It turned out this was because it failed (EPERM) reading from
> /dev/mem beyond the 1MB limit.
can you get me a strace of the failing X server?
The code as is is as designed; X has no business messing with kernel ram
over 1Mb, there is nothing there for it to (ab)use.
(There is PCI memory much higher up but that is allowed again)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-24 6:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-23 22:37 Martin Diehl
2004-09-24 6:40 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2004-09-24 8:09 ` Martin Diehl
2004-09-24 8:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
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