Mmaping vmallocated memory to user space

From: Martin Frey (frey@scs.ch)
Date: Sat Jun 10 2000 - 15:23:05 EST

Dear all,

I need to mmap vmallocated memory from a device driver to user
space. I implemented to vm_nopage method as described in the
Rubini book.
But at the address returned by the mmap call I see a different
memory location than in the driver. The memory is the same
as when I mmap /dev/mem for the same offset as the physical
address of my driver allocated buffer.
I also tried to call remap_page_range directly in the mmap
kernel interface (as e.g. /dev/mem does), but I get the same
result.
I'm using 2.2.14 on a DS20 Alpha box.

My address returned by vmalloc is 0xfffffe0000048000,
the physical address feeded to remap_page_range is
0x48000 (virt_to_phys returns that).
Scanning the whole 1st GB of memory mapped over /dev/mem
does not show the data patterns I stored in the
vmallocated area.

Can anybody help?

Thanks and best regards,

Martin Frey 

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