[SOLVED] the same story, userspace accees error for a memory mapped control register

Hi guys,
I'm a novice c programmer that got the responsibility of writing a simple function for an embedded system(superH architecture, running linux). i have a memeory-mapped register (it's the status & control registers of a DRAM controller) which i'm interested to write to and read from. the datasheet gives me their offset address and I have the base address, which i believe, means i have their physical address in hand.

here is my program which is just one line reading this register:

BOOL LMI_SET_FREQUENCY(parse_t *pars_p,char *result)

{

U32 Ddiv = 0;
Ddiv = *((volatile unsigned int *)(0xfe001012); /* base address+ offset */

InitialFrequency = 30*Ddiv*5;

printf("%d",Ddiv);


return(FALSE);
}
when i call this function, it give me UNALIGNED USERSPACE ACCESS in xxxx.c .
I don't see any executable binary file called map or mmap in my directories to use for virtual to physical address and actually i don't see any reason for using it.
could you please tell me how to approach to the solution? any comment, word which can give me the idea what to read or to do is highly appreciated

Pardis

I'm not familiar with the superH architecture specifically, but I do know that the vast majority of architectures (embedded, desktop, or other) require that all memory access be aligned to a multiple of whatever size data you're working with. In other words, if you're going to read a 32 bit (4 byte) piece of data, you need to read it from an address that's a multiple of 4 bytes.

The address you're trying to read from, 0xfe001012, isn't a multiple of 4 bytes, hence the error. It is a multiple of 2 bytes, so I bet if you tried to read 16 bits from that location, it would work.

Thanks,
i changed the address to a multiple of 4, and then used mmap()