[BUG] bug in mmap_kmem

Yoav Etsion (etsman@cs.huji.ac.il)
Tue, 19 Jun 2001 13:34:25 +0300 (IDT)


Hi,

The problem is that mmaping a segment <addr,len> from /dev/kmem gives
differnet results than reading the same <addr,len>.

It seems that the bug is that mmap_kmem is a macro for mmap_mem (for
/dev/mem).
mmap_mem maps a _physical_ offset into a vm area vma, while mmap_kmem
should map a _virtual_ offset into a vm area.

I hacked it to work by copying mmap_mem to mmap_kmem and adding __pa() in
the proper assginment, but I don't know how to check if the offset is
valid in the kernel virtual memory. Maybe someone who knows the mm code
better can fix this?

Thanks,

Yoav Etsion

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