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doc: clarify restrictions to run as non-root
authorBruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Fri, 4 Aug 2017 12:44:09 +0000 (13:44 +0100)
committerThomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Sun, 6 Aug 2017 10:26:57 +0000 (12:26 +0200)
commit0bc99caf5e34330de760fc7667991d9bfe7ae955
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parent15034c20e15a043efc4ff4a703e125beb1d4587fcommit | diff
doc: clarify restrictions to run as non-root

Since modern kernels don't allow unprivileged processes to read the
pagemaps file, the instructions on running as non-root are out-of-date. Add
a note clarifying that they will only work with earlier kernel versions.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
doc/guides/linux_gsg/enable_func.rst diff | blob | history
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