[RFC PATCH] mtd: allow mmap for ram devices in memory address space.

Brian Norris computersforpeace at gmail.com
Thu Mar 6 16:39:41 EST 2014


On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 08:32:26AM +0100, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> Implement mmap for mtd-ram, by using mtd->_get_unmapped_area, as asked by
> an ancient comment, to get the physical address (if any) in memory of the
> mtd device.
> 
> Therefore, mapram_unmapped_area had to be changed to return the physical
> address, not the virtual one, For the NOMMU case, that makes no difference,
> but for the MMU case, this is needed by mapram_unmapped_area to implement mmap.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm at macqel.be>
> Cc: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
> Cc: Markus Niebel <list-09 at tqsc.de>
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/chips/map_ram.c |    2 +-
>  drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c       |   12 +++++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/chips/map_ram.c b/drivers/mtd/chips/map_ram.c
> index 991c2a1..e93d147 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/chips/map_ram.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/chips/map_ram.c
> @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ static unsigned long mapram_unmapped_area(struct mtd_info *mtd,
>  					  unsigned long flags)
>  {
>  	struct map_info *map = mtd->priv;
> -	return (unsigned long) map->virt + offset;
> +	return (unsigned long) map->phys + offset;
>  }
>  
>  static int mapram_read (struct mtd_info *mtd, loff_t from, size_t len, size_t *retlen, u_char *buf)
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c
> index 2147e73..00eac7a 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c
> @@ -1112,13 +1112,23 @@ static int mtdchar_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
>  #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
>  	struct mtd_file_info *mfi = file->private_data;
>  	struct mtd_info *mtd = mfi->mtd;
> -	struct map_info *map = mtd->priv;
> +	loff_t offset = vma->vm_pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT;
> +	loff_t len = vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start;
>  
> +	if (offset > mtd->size - len)
> +		return (unsigned long) -EINVAL;

What's the cast doing? This function returns 'int'.

And anyway, you're duplicating the checks that are already in
mtd_get_unmapped_area(). See below.

> +	if (mtd->_get_unmapped_area) {
> +		phys_addr_t start;
> +
> +		start = mtd->_get_unmapped_area(mtd, len, offset, vma->vm_flags);

You should be using mtd_get_unmapped_area(), as the comment below says.
The underscore in front of the function pointer is to prevent people
from using them directly. You can check for -EOPNOTSUPP after calling
mtd_get_unmapped_area().

> +		return vm_iomap_memory(vma, start, len);
> +	}
>          /* This is broken because it assumes the MTD device is map-based
>  	   and that mtd->priv is a valid struct map_info.  It should be
>  	   replaced with something that uses the mtd_get_unmapped_area()
>  	   operation properly. */
>  	if (0 /*mtd->type == MTD_RAM || mtd->type == MTD_ROM*/) {
> +		struct map_info *map = mtd->priv;

You're adding dead code. It's behind an 'if (0)'. Could you perhaps take
a harder look at this code and fix up or kill any cruft?

>  #ifdef pgprot_noncached
>  		if (file->f_flags & O_DSYNC || map->phys >= __pa(high_memory))
>  			vma->vm_page_prot = pgprot_noncached(vma->vm_page_prot);

Brian



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