Hi all,
I have been trying to map memory to user space, but i get a strange problem.
Heres a kmsg dump
<1>Hello
<1>Success!
<1>Alloc memory now
<1>Virtual address of region alloced using kmalloc : d79ec000
<1>I'm ok!
<1>Virtual address of region alloced using kmalloc : d79ec000
<1>Physical address of region alloced using kmalloc : 179ec000
<1>VMA start for process : b7f22000
<1>VMA end for process : b7f23000
<1>Bye
and heres the code for allocating the memory area
base=kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE,GFP_KERNEL);
*base='a';
printk ("<1>%x",base);
mem_map_reserve(virt_to_page(base));
Heres the mmap code..It succeeds the dump doesnt say failed
unsigned long page,pos,basepos;
pos=(unsigned long) base;
printk ("<1>%x",pos);
page = virt_to_phys((void *)pos);
printk ("<1>%x",page);
printk ("<1>%x",vma->vm_start);
printk ("<1>%x",vma->vm_end);
if (remap_pfn_range(vma,vma->vm_start, page >> PAGE_SHIFT,
vma->vm_end-vma->vm_start, vma->vm_page_prot))
{
printk ("<1>failed");
return -EAGAIN;
}
return 0;
Heres a gdb dump for the process
Breakpoint 1, main () at userapp.c:21
(gdb) print p
$1 = 0xb7f22000 <Address 0xb7f22000 out of bounds>
(gdb) quit
This is btw a character device..
i do
int fd=open("....",O_RDONLY);
char *p = ( char *) mmap(NULL, 1024, PROT_READ,MAP_SHARED,fd,0);
All the calculations seem right...and remap was called with 0xb7f22000 as
the base to mmap..But the app complains that the page tables arent right!
I did a pagetable walk for vma->vm_start in current->mm and the
physical address was right! What could be the problem?
Thanks,
Sudharsan
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