[PATCH 2/3] proc/kcore: Do not map unaccepted memory

Dave Hansen dave.hansen at intel.com
Thu Sep 7 08:43:07 PDT 2023


On 9/6/23 00:39, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> Do not map unaccepted memory because it can cause the guest to fail.
> 
> For /proc/kcore, which is read-only and does not support mmap, this means a
> read of unaccepted memory will return zeros.

I'm confused by this changelog and subject.

What is getting "mapped" here if mmap() isn't in play?



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