[Crash-utility] CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM

Wed Nov 12 16:16:17 UTC 2008

* Cliff Wickman [2008-11-12 09:54]:
>
> 
> Running on an x86_64 box, with a 2.6.28 kernel, lcrash fails
> on a failed read of /dev/mem.
> It is a read to initialize virtop. It fails with EPERM.
> 
> The problem is
>   CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM=y
> 
> (could this be a problem to crash as well?)

Yes. I'm working on making that runtime-configurable and hope that
patch gets accepted upstream.

Regards,
Bernhard
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Bernhard Walle, SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Architecture Development