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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: "Sauce.Cheng" <chmhou@sina.com>
Subject: Re: mmap() problem in own driver
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:30:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200907131630.50581.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <24457031.post@talk.nabble.com>

On Monday 13 July 2009, Sauce.Cheng wrote:

> I want to get data from kernel space to user space indirectly using mmap()
> but i dont know how I can do , anyone can give me some advices ?
> 
> firstly, fetch data by DMA to a memory allocated by "kmalloc"
> then i want to mmap it to user space and save the data as a file 

You first need to allocate full pages, e.g. using alloc_pages() instead
of kmalloc, which may not be aligned. To get a streaming mapping on
that memory, use dma_map_single(), which returns a DMA address you 
can pass to the device.
For user space access, the easiest is to have a character device,
which uses an mmap() file operation that calls remap_pfn_range()
on the page_to_pfn(pages).

	Arnd <><

      reply	other threads:[~2009-07-13 14:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-13  7:00 mmap() problem in own driver Sauce.Cheng
2009-07-13 14:30 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]

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