Re: temp. mem mappings

cohutta
2001-06-05T20:42:52Z

> > > Allocate a virtual memory area using vmalloc and then save and
modify the
> > > pmd/pgd/pte to point to the physical memory you want. To unmap,
just undo the
> > > previous steps.
> >
> > ioremap() is there for exactly that purpose.
>
> True, except that you can't use ioremap on normal memory, which is
what I
> assumed he was trying to do.

Normal memory is identity-mapped very early in boot anyway (except for
highmem on large Intel boxes, that is, and kmap() works for that.)
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I don't really want to play with the page tables if i can help it.
I didn't use ioremap() because it's real system memory, not IO bus
memory.

How much normal memory is identity-mapped at boot on x86?
Is it more than 8 MB?

I'm trying to read some ACPI tables, like the FACP.
On my system, this is at physical address 0x3fffd7d7 (e.g.).

kmap() ends up calling set_pte(), which is close to what i am
already doing. i'm having a problem on the unmap side when i
am done with the temporary mapping.

thanks.
/cohutta/