Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:15:11 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] prevent "dd if=/dev/mem" crash |
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On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 04:55:43PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > This code was conceived before my time and I don't recall seeing much > discussion, so this is all guesswork.. > I'd say that the high_memory test _is_ superfluous and that if anyone > cared, we would remove it and establish a temporary pte against the address if > it was outside the direct-mapped area. But nobody cares enough to have > done anything about it.
I've heard crash dump people mention it and am trying to convince them to post their fix(es) here. =)
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