On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 11:49:21PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > +#ifndef CONFIG_GENERIC_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
> > +extern int devmem_is_allowed(unsigned long pfn);
> > +#endif

Nit: no need for the extern here.

> > +config GENERIC_LIB_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
> > +   bool
> > +   select ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
> 
> This seems to work the other way around from the usual Kconfig chains.
> In the most cases ARCH_HAS_SOMETHING selects GENERIC_SOMETHING.
> 
> I believe nicer way would be to make 
> 
> config STRICT_DEVMEM
>       bool "Filter access to /dev/mem"
>       depends on MMU && DEVMEM
>       depends on ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED || GENERIC_LIB_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
> 
> config GENERIC_LIB_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
>       bool
> 
> and then s/select ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED/select 
> GENERIC_LIB_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED/
> in the arch Kconfigs and drop ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED in the end.

To take a step back:  Is there any reason to not just always
STRICT_DEVMEM? Maybe for a few architectures that don't currently
support a strict /dev/mem the generic version isn't quite correct, but
someone selecting the option and finding the issue is the best way to
figure that out..

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