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authorPavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>2014-12-28 17:15:24 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-02-19 02:09:49 +0100
commit1f40a8bfa91adfa8d1ac5013c08c76f6fd6691ad (patch)
tree6f7d30d99e00a02626e496a5006f9af2f0b163fb /arch/x86
parentx86/mm: Reduce PAE-mode per task pgd allocation overhead from 4K to 32 bytes (diff)
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x86/mm/pat: Ensure different messages in STRICT_DEVMEM and PAT cases
STRICT_DEVMEM and PAT produce same failure accessing /dev/mem, which is quite confusing to the user. Make printk messages different to lessen confusion. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/pat.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
index 7ac68698406c..35af6771a95a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
@@ -610,7 +610,7 @@ pgprot_t phys_mem_access_prot(struct file *file, unsigned long pfn,
}
#ifdef CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM
-/* This check is done in drivers/char/mem.c in case of STRICT_DEVMEM*/
+/* This check is done in drivers/char/mem.c in case of STRICT_DEVMEM */
static inline int range_is_allowed(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long size)
{
return 1;
@@ -628,8 +628,8 @@ static inline int range_is_allowed(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long size)
while (cursor < to) {
if (!devmem_is_allowed(pfn)) {
- printk(KERN_INFO "Program %s tried to access /dev/mem between [mem %#010Lx-%#010Lx]\n",
- current->comm, from, to - 1);
+ printk(KERN_INFO "Program %s tried to access /dev/mem between [mem %#010Lx-%#010Lx], PAT prevents it\n",
+ current->comm, from, to - 1);
return 0;
}
cursor += PAGE_SIZE;