Re: [PATCH] memory hotplug: Refuse to add unaligned memory regions
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Date: 2011-09-15 06:46:57
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On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 06:26:15AM +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote:
The sysfs memory probe interface allows unaligned regions to be added: # echo 0xffffff > /sys/devices/system/memory/probe # cat /proc/iomem 00ffffff-01fffffe : System RAM 01ffffff-02fffffe : System RAM 02ffffff-03fffffe : System RAM 03ffffff-04fffffe : System RAM 04ffffff-05fffffe : System RAM Return -EINVAL instead of creating these bad regions. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <redacted> ---
Is this something that should go into 3.1 and older kernels to properly handle this type of error? greg k-h