From: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@infinera.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: uio_dmem_genirq.c and DMA mapping to user space ?
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 05:37:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170912123716.GA19626@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1505218705.31322.108.camel@infinera.com>
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 12:18:27PM +0000, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am trying to use the uio_dmem_genirq.c driver for allocating DMA memory to a PCI device
> using the uio_pci_generic.c driver.
>
> I got as far as defining an UIO dev containing only Dynamic DMA memory and
> now I am stuck.
> I can see how DMA memory is allocated when opening the /dev/uio device but I cannot
> figure out how to mmap this memory to User space as well so I can share this
> memory with the PCI device and my user space driver.
>
> What am I missing?
Why can't you call mmap() on the fd you created when you opened
/dev/uio? What happens when you do that?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-12 12:37 UTC|newest]
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2017-09-12 12:18 uio_dmem_genirq.c and DMA mapping to user space ? Joakim Tjernlund
2017-09-12 12:37 ` gregkh [this message]
2017-09-12 14:08 ` Joakim Tjernlund
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