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    s390: allow absolute memory access for /dev/mem · b2a68c23
    Michael Holzheu 提交于
    Currently dev/mem for s390 provides only real memory access. This means
    that the CPU prefix pages are swapped. The prefix swap for real memory
    works as follows:
    
    Each CPU owns a prefix register that points to a page aligned memory
    location "P". If this CPU accesses the address range [0,0x1fff], it is
    translated by the hardware to [P,P+0x1fff]. Accordingly if this CPU
    accesses the address range [P,P+0x1fff], it is translated by the hardware
    to [0,0x1fff].  Therefore, if [P,P+0x1fff] or [0,0x1fff] is read from
    the current /dev/mem device, the incorrectly swapped memory content is
    returned.
    
    With this patch the /dev/mem architecture code is modified to provide
    absolute memory access. This is done via the arch specific functions
    xlate_dev_mem_ptr() and unxlate_dev_mem_ptr(). For swapped pages on
    s390 the function xlate_dev_mem_ptr() now returns a new buffer with a
    copy of the requested absolute memory. In case the buffer was allocated,
    the unxlate_dev_mem_ptr() function frees it after /dev/mem code has
    called copy_to_user().
    Signed-off-by: NMichael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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