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Add the MEM_EXTRACT_PADDR ioctl to /dev/mem.

Description

Add the MEM_EXTRACT_PADDR ioctl to /dev/mem.

This allows privileged userspace processes to find information about the
physical page backing a given mapping. It is useful in applications
such as DPDK which perform some of their own memory management.

Reviewed by: kib, jhb (previous version)
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc.
Sponsored by: Klara Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26237

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Provenance
markjAuthored on
Reviewer
kib
Differential Revision
D26237: Add the MEM_EXTRACT_PADDR ioctl to /dev/mem.
Parents
rS365264: drm2: Further improve deprecation message
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