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From: kernel@jbeekman.nl (Jethro Beekman)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Mapping IO memory read-write
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 10:06:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5696923C.80700@jbeekman.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK7rcp9KPD2mkKNXeT1CP1VH_ckoL5gHO=FEkTBxmQ3PCPT-Dw@mail.gmail.com>

> In this case, have you tried reading and writing to the memory segment being
> mmap'd from userland?
>
> Here's an example mmap'ing device driver if you need to see that:
> https://github.com/claudioscordino/mmap_alloc

That would not have worked, but your example code did give me an idea. I was
using MAP_PRIVATE while I should've been using MAP_SHARED. It works now. Thanks!

Jethro

On 13-01-16 06:34, Kenneth Adam Miller wrote:
> In this case, have you tried reading and writing to the memory segment being
> mmap'd from userland? 
> 
> Here's an example mmap'ing device driver if you need to see that:
> https://github.com/claudioscordino/mmap_alloc
> 
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 6:10 PM, Jethro Beekman <kernel@jbeekman.nl
> <mailto:kernel@jbeekman.nl>> wrote:
> 
>     I'm writing a device driver for a memory-mapped device on x86-64. I'm mapping
>     the device in the kernel using ioremap_cache(). My file_operations.mmap function
>     is as follows:
> 
>     static int dev_mmap(struct file *filep, struct vm_area_struct *vma) {
>             vma->vm_page_prot.pgprot|=_PAGE_BIT_RW;
>             return vm_iomap_memory(vma,START,LEN);
>     }
> 
>     The user process calls mmap(..,PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC,..). The mapping
>     in /proc/[pid]/maps shows the write bit. However, when looking at the actual
>     page table entry does not have the RW bit set. For example:
> 
>     virtual address = 0000_0001_8000_0000
>     cr3 = 0000_0000_700a_e000
>     phys:0000_0000_700a_e000 = 0000_0000_7e05_5067 (P|RW|US|A|D)
>     phys:0000_0000_7e05_5030 = 0000_0001_66e2_9067 (P|RW|US|A|D)
>     phys:0000_0001_66e2_9000 = 0000_0001_69db_3067 (P|RW|US|A|D)
>     phys:0000_0001_69db_3000 = 0000_0000_8020_0225 (P|US|A|SOFTW1)
> 
>     Am I doing something wrong?
> 
>     Jethro
> 
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      reply	other threads:[~2016-01-13 18:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-12 23:10 Mapping IO memory read-write Jethro Beekman
2016-01-13 14:34 ` Kenneth Adam Miller
2016-01-13 18:06   ` Jethro Beekman [this message]

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