mapping "random" physical memory into kernel
Andrew Gallatin
gallatin at cs.duke.edu
Thu Feb 2 14:36:51 PST 2006
Scott Long writes:
> Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> > Can somebody please remind me what the supported way to establish a
> > kernel virtual address for a "random" chunk of physical memory is?
> > I'm currently using pmap_mapdev() directly, but that just feels
> > dirty...
> >
> > I need to twiddle the settings of an Nvidia NF4 bridge in extended
> > PCI config space (offset 0x178). These offsets are not accessible
> > via normal pci config space writes, but are doable when you use the
> > 0xe000000 mapping.
>
> Extended pci config space is supported by default on i386, but I
> haven't gotten around to figuring out the right strategy for
> amd64. I'd like to be able to map the entire 256MB range instead
> of the on-demand approach with i386, but I need to learn more about
> the various VM maps on amd64 first.
Cool. It would be great if it worked; I'd love to remove
a bunch of grotty code ;)
> >
> > The problem is that this memory is not really associated with
> > anything, so a normal bus_alloc_resource() allocation doesn't
> > seem like it would work.
>
> pmap_mapdev is the correct interface for this.
Except it doesn't appear to exist on sparc64. But I doubt
we'd ever see an NF4 bridge there, so I suppose I can ifdef
it for i386/amd64.
Drew
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