Thread (18 messages) 18 messages, 6 authors, 2006-03-29

Re: Memory mapping PCI memory region to user space

From: Phil Nitschke <hidden>
Date: 2006-03-29 02:26:22

On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 10:18 -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
On Mar 27, 2006, at 2:02 AM, Phil Nitschke wrote:
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On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 09:44 -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
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On Mar 23, 2006, at 8:21 AM, Wyse, Chris wrote:
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Hi,

I'm trying to map a PCI memory region 1 into user space from my
driver (PPC440GX, Linux 2.6.10).  Here's the mmap routine of the
driver that I'm using:
Why don't use the mmap file exposed by sysfs so you dont have to
write your own code?

See Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt.  But effectively down
under /sys/bus/pci/devices/[domain:bus:dev:func]/ you will get
resource[0..N-1] that corresponds to each BAR on the device.  This is
a mmap file to access that region.
I have some custom hardware that appears on the PCI bus as follows:

bash-3.00# lspci -vv
00:01.0 Class 0680: 1172:0004 (rev 01)
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
	Status: Cap- 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort+
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
	Latency: 128, Cache Line Size 08
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 71
	Region 0: Memory at 000000009ffff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
[size=4K]
	Region 1: Memory at 000000009fc00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
[size=2M]

But when I try to access resource0 or resource1, I get a read error.
What characteristic of the device or driver determines whether it will
allow mmap-ing?

(I've written the driver for this device myself.)
Nothing special beyond normal unix perms on the resource[0..n] files  
to my knowledge.  When you say you get a read error what exactly does  
that mean?
It means I had a bug in my program which read (mmap()ed) the resouce :-(
It is fixed now (see below).  Thanks for the tip.

-- 
Phil Nitschke [off-list ref]
Avalon Systems Pty Ltd

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