Re: Question: how to copy to user space from a tasklet

[Tom Brown <sa212+emis@cyconix.com>]

On 18/10/2010 18:01, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Tom Brown wrote:
>> Thanks, think I'm there:
>>
>> 1 - The user calls mmap() with a specific offset to flag that he wants a
>> DMA buffer
>>
>> 2 - I then 'vmalloc' the buffer, and call 'setPageReserved' for each page
>>
>> I then step over each page, and:
>>
>> 3 - call 'vmalloc_to_pfn' to get a PFN for each page, and then
>>
>> 4 - call 'remap_page_range' for that page (I instead call
>> 'remap_pfn_range' for kernels>= 2.6.10, but I'm on 2.6.9)
>>
>> This gives me the buffer, and the interrupt handler then just uses
>> 'memcpy' to copy data to the user.
>
> I would have thought of a bunch of alloc_page() and vm_insert_page() but I
> don't know if vm_insert_page exists in 2.6.9 and if it honors user limits.

It turns out that I'm getting occasional

"BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 
...[buffer address]"

oops when the driver attempts to 'memcpy' to the buffer, so I think 
'setPageReserved' is probably not the right thing to do.  This is 
strange - it's almost as if 'setPageReserved' stops the page being 
swapped out, but the kernel doesn't know this.

I'll look into alloc_page/vm_insert_page instead.

Thanks -

Tom