Re: how to allocate 9MB of memory in kernel ?

On Friday 18 July 2008, Misbah khan wrote:

Now my concern is How can i map SDRAM one to one to circular buffer of such
a huge size ???? 

As I mentioned, use vmalloc to get the memory, and provide an mmap function
that uses remap_vmalloc_range to put it into the user address space.

My idea is that i will ioreamp SDRAM and do memcpy_toio() when ever i am
writing to the the circular buffer which is dma allocated and pages are set
reserved . and read the frame from user space .

ioremap and memcpy_toio style accesses only make sense for stuff that is
*not* your main memory. Memory is alrady directly accessible in the kernel
after allocating with get_free_pages, kmalloc or vmalloc. No need to
play with __iomem pointers for this.

	Arnd <><