Subject: Re: other fix for the "unwiring unmanaged page" problem
To: Matthias Drochner <drochner@zelux6.zel.kfa-juelich.de>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/16/1998 18:04:02 
> Here is a different fix for the mentioned problem. It disallows procfs access
> to regions mmap()ed from a device completely and thus avoids the situation
> which led to the panic (or to data corruption without
> MACHINE_NEW_NONCONTIG).
> Would this be too restrictive?

Hm... thinking about frame buffers, maybe. Thinking about the
controlling registers for the frame buffer devices, no.

Regards,
	-is