Re: [patch] do_no_pfn

[Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>]

Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> I do have a case where I used pages without struct pages, but
> I don't really like the implementation, and I'd love to have
> someone who knows about VM tell me "no, dummy, you should do it
> this way instead."
> 
> Here's the scenario:  I'm trying to implement
> /sys/class/pci_bus/DDDD:BB/legacy_mem so we can run X servers
> on multiple VGA cards.  The chipset (used in HP parisc and ia64
> boxes) supports multiple PCI root bridges, and it routes the
> VGA legacy MMIO space at 0xA0000-0xBFFFF to one of them.
> 
> This region is MMIO, so there are no struct pages for it.  I can
> easily mmap the space for the first VGA device.  But to support
> a second device, I have to be able to invalidate the mappings
> for the first device, twiddle stuff in the chipset, and make new
> mappings for the second device.  And of course I have to do the
> reverse (invalidate mappings of second device, twiddle chipset,
> map first device) when the first X server faults on the frame
> buffer.
> 
> Basically, only one of the /sys/class/pci_bus/DDDD:BB/legacy_mem
> files can have an active mmap at a time, and I haven't figured
> out a good way to do the mutual exclusion.
Probably you can just nuke the pte's similar to __xip_unmap() in
mm/filemap_xip.c.

cheers,
Carsten