On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 02:06:17PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> The typical usage of unmap_mapping_range() is part of
> truncate_pagecache() to punch a hole in a file, but in this case the
> implementation is only doing the "first half" of a hole punch. Namely it
> is just evacuating current
Close the hole of holding a mapping over kernel driver takeover event of
a given address range.
Commit 90a545e98126 ("restrict /dev/mem to idle io memory ranges")
introduced CONFIG_IO_STRICT_DEVMEM with the goal of protecting the
kernel against scenarios where a /dev/mem user tramples memory that
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