Hi --

I am trying to map a PCI physical address bar to my user space program. In order to be able to map this physical address to user space I am creating a dummy character driver and capture the bar address in my driver. Later, I send this address to user (using IOCTL) and call mmap on the physical address.

As you can see I am not trying to map a file or something, I am trying to map the real physical memory which I know its address.

I am calling mmap() as follow:

mmap(0 , mem_length , PORT_READ|PROT_WRITE|MAP_SHARED, fd , offset);

1) mem_length = phy_addr_end - phy_addr_start
2) fd = open("/dev/_dummy_char_dev_name", O_WRONLY)
3) offset = phy_addr_start

mmap is returing MAP_FAILED . Could you please give me some hint on this?

also, my kernel mosule map funciton is as follow:


kernel_map(struct file * filp , struct vm_area_struct * vma)
{
remap_pfn_range(vma,vma->vm_Start,
vma->pgoff,
vma->vm_end-vma->vm_Start,
vm->vm_page_prot)

rturn 0
}


any help is much appreciated.

What is the error code in errno? My guess is (from mmap manual):
You have MAP_SHARED and PROT_READ, but open the file only with O_WRONLY.

(nevermind)
ta0kira

Mara,

thank you so much for your advise. I changed O_WRONLY to O_RDWR and it worked.

Fardad