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The initial virtio-mem spec states that while unplugged memory should not be read, the device still has to allow for reading unplugged memory inside the usable region. The primary motivation for this default handling was to simplify bringup of virtio-mem, because there were corner cases where Linux might have accidentially read unplugged memory inside added Linux memory blocks. In the meantime, we: 1. Removed /dev/kmem in commitbbcd53c960("drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good") 2. Disallowed access to virtio-mem device memory via /dev/mem in commit2128f4e21a("virtio-mem: disallow mapping virtio-mem memory via /dev/mem") 3. Sanitized access to virtio-mem device memory via /proc/kcore in commit0daa322b8f("fs/proc/kcore: don't read offline sections, logically offline pages and hwpoisoned pages") 4. Sanitized access to virtio-mem device memory via /proc/vmcore in commitce2814622e("virtio-mem: kdump mode to sanitize /proc/vmcore access") "Accidential" access to unplugged memory is no longer possible; we can support the new VIRTIO_MEM_F_UNPLUGGED_INACCESSIBLE feature that will be required by some hypervisors implementing virtio-mem in the near future. Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Cc: Marek Kedzierski <mkedzier@redhat.com> Cc: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com> Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.