On 2015-05-12 11:25, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>
>> also the interesting question is:
>> can a process give up these perms?
>> otherwise it becomes a "once given, never gotten rid of" hell hole.
>
> If you look at a modern linux distro, nothing should need/use iopl and
> co anymore, so maybe an interesting
> question is if we can stick these behind a CONFIG_ option (default on
> of course for compatibility)... just like
> some of the /dev/mem like things are now hidable for folks who know
> they don't need them.
Personally, I _really_ like this idea.  The only thing I know of on any 
modern distro that even considers using ioperm is hwclock, and it only 
does so if it can't access the RTC through other means (and if you have 
an RTC, you really should have the /dev interface enabled).