Re: mmap() of /dev/kmem issue

[Mario Smarduch <cms063@email.mot.com>]

It appears that from mmap_mem() noncached_address()
succeeds on PageReserved for ranges in: KERNEL_START-
KERNEL_END, I tried a temporary workaround by making
an exception to addresses in that range and things work (that
is for this program only) but what sort of problems would such a
change introduce?

if(PageReserved(page) && !((va >= KERNEL_START) && (va < KERNEL_END)) )
            return (1);

I would think allot of people would like to mmap() /dev/kmem
to take a quick look at kernel values, atleast that's what I've
seen on other Unix variants.

- mario.




Grant Grundler wrote:

> On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 01:12:21PM -0500, Mario Smarduch wrote:
> > jiffies=0x`grep "D jiffies" /boot/System.map | awk '{ print $1 }'`
> > ./tstmmapkmem $jiffies
>
> Maybe the process is being prempted?
> Ie maybe the problem is the contents are "stale" by the
> time they get displayed on the console/terminal.
> jiffies gets updated 1000/second so on occasion I would
> expect this to happen.
> Maybe pick something that doesn't get updated so frequently?
>
> grant
>
> > #define DEVICE   "/dev/kmem"
> > #define PAGE_MASK (0x4000 - 1) /* page is 16k */
> >
> > #define wmb() __asm__ __volatile__ ("": : :"memory")
> >
> > extern int errno;
> > main(int argc, char *argv[])
> > {
> >    int fd;
> >    ulong mapaddr;
> >    volatile long *jifptr, jiffies;
> >
> >    jiffies = strtoul(argv[1], 0, 16);
> >    printf("jiffies = 0x%lx+AFw-n", jiffies);
> >    printf("pid = %d+AFw-n", getpid());
> >
> >    if((fd = open(DEVICE, O_RDWR)) < 0)
> >         printf("open failed - errno = %d+AFw-n", errno), exit(errno);
> >
> >    jiffies -= IDENBASE;
> >    mapaddr=(ulong) mmap((void *)0x2000000080000000, 0x8000000,
> > PROT_WRITE|PROT_R
> > EAD|PROT_EXEC, MAP_SHARED | MAP_FIXED, fd, jiffies & +AH4-PAGE_MASK);
> >    if(mapaddr = -1UL) {
> >       printf("mmap failed errno = %d+AFw-n", errno);
> >       exit(-1);
> >    }
> >    printf("mapaddr = 0x%lx+AFw-n", mapaddr);
> >    jiffies = mapaddr  (jiffies & PAGE_MASK);
> >    jifptr = (long *) jiffies;
> >    printf("jifptr = 0x%lx+AFw-n", jifptr);
> > pragain:
> >    printf("jiffies: %ld+AFw-n",  *jifptr);
> >
> >    printf("Type return to read again (and flush cashe in meantime):+AFw-n");
> >
> >    getchar();
> >    goto pragain;
> > }
> >
> > - Mario.
> >
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