having problems with remap_page_range() and virt_to_phys()

[Chris Friesen]

I'm trying to allocate a page of in-kernel memory and make it accessable to 
userspace and to late asm code where we don't have virtual memory enabled.

I'm running code essentially equivalent to the following, where "map_addr" is a 
virtual address passed in by userspace, and "vma" is the appropriate one for 
that address:


struct page *pg = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL);
void *virt = page_address(pg);
unsigned long phys = virt_to_phys(virt)
remap_page_range(vma, map_addr, phys, PAGE_SIZE, vma->vm_page_prot)


The problem that I'm having is that after the call to remap_page_range, the 
result of

virt_to_phys(map_addr)

is not equal to "phys", and I assume it should be since its supposed to be 
pointing to the same physical page as "virt".

Anyone have any ideas?  I can't post the exact code right now since the machine 
is at work and hung (Oops.) but I could post it tomorrow if that is necessary.

I'm using 2.6.5 for ppc, if it makes any difference.

Thanks,

Chris
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