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x86: move devmem_is_allowed() to common mm/init.c

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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>
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Pekka Enberg
2009-03-04 11:46:40 +02:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 8b0e5860cb
commit 540aca06b7
3 changed files with 24 additions and 43 deletions
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arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
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@ -876,28 +876,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(memory_add_physaddr_to_nid);
#endif /* CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG */
/*
* 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;
}
static struct kcore_list kcore_mem, kcore_vmalloc, kcore_kernel,
kcore_modules, kcore_vsyscall;