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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-11-13 22:14:05 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-11-13 22:14:05 +0100
commitccfff0a2bd2a30de130b5623d242ddecd0272bc2 (patch)
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parentMerge tag 'clk-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cl... (diff)
parentvirtio-mem: support VIRTIO_MEM_F_UNPLUGGED_INACCESSIBLE (diff)
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Merge tag 'virtio-mem-for-5.16' of git://github.com/davidhildenbrand/linux
Pull virtio-mem update from David Hildenbrand: "Support the VIRTIO_MEM_F_UNPLUGGED_INACCESSIBLE feature in virtio-mem, now that "accidential" access to logically unplugged memory inside added Linux memory blocks is no longer possible, because we: - Removed /dev/kmem in commit bbcd53c96071 ("drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good") - Disallowed access to virtio-mem device memory via /dev/mem in commit 2128f4e21aa ("virtio-mem: disallow mapping virtio-mem memory via /dev/mem") - Sanitized access to virtio-mem device memory via /proc/kcore in commit 0daa322b8ff9 ("fs/proc/kcore: don't read offline sections, logically offline pages and hwpoisoned pages") - Sanitized access to virtio-mem device memory via /proc/vmcore in commit ce2814622e84 ("virtio-mem: kdump mode to sanitize /proc/vmcore access") The new VIRTIO_MEM_F_UNPLUGGED_INACCESSIBLE feature that will be required by some hypervisors implementing virtio-mem in the near future, so let's support it now that we safely can" * tag 'virtio-mem-for-5.16' of git://github.com/davidhildenbrand/linux: virtio-mem: support VIRTIO_MEM_F_UNPLUGGED_INACCESSIBLE
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