and the mmap entry point in the driver is implemented
as below:
In the implementation, it tries to write an index into
the first four bytes, which i use to store in my
internal structures( to later reference it through the
index), before zeroing out the buffer. But the index
is always -1.
I dont understand the part where its getting the
physical address to map.
whats the high_memory and whats the PAGE_OFFSET.
Can you help me in understanding what exactly is the
mmap() doing here and
if its doing it right.
himem_buf_allocated = 0;
int xxx_mmap(struct file *filp,
		  struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
  unsigned long size;
  char * virt_addr;
  int		index;
  size = vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start;
  if ((size % PAGE_SIZE) != 0){
    size = (size / PAGE_SIZE) * PAGE_SIZE + PAGE_SIZE;
  }
  /* himem_buf_size is 0x80000000 */
  if (size + himem_buf_allocated >= himem_buf_size){
    
    return -ENOMEM;
  }
  
  /* himem_buf is calculated as high_memory -
PAGE_OFFSET */
  umem_addr = himem_buf + himem_buf_allocated;
  if (umem_addr == 0){
    return -ENOMEM;
  }
  himem_buf_allocated += size;
  
  virt_addr = ioremap((unsigned long)umem_addr,
PAGE_SIZE);  
  if (virt_addr == 0){
    return -ENOMEM;
  }
  /* write the index into the first 4 bytes */
  writel(index, (uint32_t *)virt_addr);
    /* the values of index and *(virt_addr) do not 
       match.   *(virt_addr) is always -1 .
       Is something wrong here    */
    dbg_printf(0,"index is %d, *(virt_addr) is %d\n",
index,(int)readl(virt_addr));
  iounmap(virt_addr);
   
  remap_page_range(vma->vm_start, (ulong)umem_addr, 
		   vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start, vma->vm_page_prot);
  return 0;
}
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