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From: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@tlen.pl>
Subject: remap_pfn_range() and mapping RAM
Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 18:46:16 +0200
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Hello everyone,

While developing a method for mapping RAM memory into user space
I stumbled across Suresh Siddha's commit that "broke" my code:

  commit be03d9e8022030c16abf534e33e185bfc3d40eef
  x86, pat: fix warn_on_once() while mapping 0-1MB range with /dev/mem

I believe there were important reasons for the changes but how do I map
user RAM memory into user space?  Up to this point I've used something
along the lines of (error checking removed):

#v+
static int file_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
	const size_t start  =3D /* physical address of memory allocated
	                         using alloc_bootmem_low_pages() */;

	return remap_pfn_range(vma, vma->vm_start,
	                       (start >> PAGE_SHIFT) + vma->vm_pgoff
	                       vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start,
	                       vma->vm_page_prot);
}
#v-

Reverting the be03... commit makes it work again but I guess it's not
a good way to solve this problem.

Could anyone point me to proper function which may be used like
remap_pfn_range() but work on RAM addresses?  It is important, that the
function will work in similar fashion, ie. create raw PFN mappings
without associated struct page.

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